by Whitman · Cluster: Memory and Time · Memory · Nostalgia
Abstract
The skull/mind imagined as a tiny round gallery holding all the world’s tableaus of life and death, with the self as cicerone guide.
Connections
Motifs: Memory, Death Themes & Concepts: Memory and Time, Imagination, Identity
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: AUTUMN RIVULETS
In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories! Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death; Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself, With finger rais’d he points to the prodigal pictures.