by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Closing Calamus poem addressing a reader centuries hence as comrade, the dead poet seeking the living; comradeship, immortality through verse, memory and time.
Connections
Topoi: Immortality Through Verse Motifs: Letters and Writing Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Memory and Time, Immortality
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
Full of life now, compact, visible, I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States, To one a century hence or any number of centuries hence, To you yet unborn these, seeking you.
When you read these I that was visible am become invisible, Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me, Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade; Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)