Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]

by Whitman · Cluster: Temptation · Good vs Evil · Serpent Snake

Abstract

A two-line free-verse epigram after Hegel: the little Good hastens to immortality while the vast Evil merges and dies; on good vs evil, immortality and the natural order.

Connections

Themes & Concepts: Good vs Evil, Immortality, Natural Order Forms & Genres: Free Verse, Epigram

Testo integrale / Full text

Cluster: BY THE ROADSIDE

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good
steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself
and become lost and dead.