by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Brief lyric raising the present on the past like a tree, fusing time and space and immortal laws; self-made man as law unto himself.
Connections
Archetypes: Self-Made Man Motifs: Time, Nature Themes & Concepts: Identity Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
For him I sing,
I raise the present on the past,
(As some perennial tree out of its roots, the present on the past,)
With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
To make himself by them the law unto himself.