by Whitman · Cluster: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance
Abstract
A prophecy of poetic immortality: only after ages of accumulation and myriad readers will the poet’s songs reach their fruition.
Connections
Topoi: Immortality Through Verse Motifs: Book Reading Themes & Concepts: Immortality of Art Fame, Memory and Time Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials,
Accumulations, rous’d love and joy and thought,
Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers,
Coating, compassing, covering—after ages’ and ages’ encrustations,
Then only may these songs reach fruition.