by Whitman · Cluster: Wonder and Gratitude · Sublime · Storm
Abstract
Ecstatic wonder at the first step of consciousness, sense and motion; joy, wonder and gratitude, the sublime in the ordinary. Short free-verse lyric.
Connections
Motifs: Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Joy, Wonder and Gratitude, Sublime Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.