by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand

Abstract

Vision of an invincible ‘new city of Friends’ ruled by robust love; comradeship as utopian civic ideal, dreams and the city.

Connections

Motifs: City, Dreams Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Friendship, Democracy

Testo integrale / Full text

Cluster: CALAMUS

I dream’d in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream’d that was the new city of Friends, Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.