by Whitman · Cluster: Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Abstract
Quatrain reading agricultural labor as an analogy for mortality: life is the tillage and death the harvest according.
Connections
Topoi: Book of Nature Motifs: Seasons, Death Themes & Concepts: Mortality Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)