by Whitman · Cluster: Nationalism and Patriotism · Democracy · Liberty Political Freedom
Abstract
Orange buds mailed across America to the poet’s snowy Northern room as proof of the nation’s broad expanse.
Connections
Motifs: Flowers, Nature, Winter Themes & Concepts: Nationalism and Patriotism, Critique of Progress Forms & Genres: Lyric Settings: America
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
A lesser proof than old Voltaire’s, yet greater,
Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
Brought safely for a thousand miles o’er land and tide,
Some three days since on their own soil live-sprouting,
Now here their sweetness through my room unfolding,
A bunch of orange buds by mall from Florida.