by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Lyric on the self continually dying and being reborn, content to leave behind the corpses of former selves and stride ahead, always living.
Connections
Topoi: Eternal Return Motifs: Death Themes & Concepts: Identity, Mortality, Self-Knowledge
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
O living always, always dying! O the burials of me past and present, O me while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever; O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not, I am content;) O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them, To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.