by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Demands a place in proud libraries for his war-born book whose drift is everything; the book/writing, the artist and society, war.
Connections
Topoi: Poet as Prophet Motifs: Book Reading Themes & Concepts: Artist and Society, War and its Cost Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet
needed most, I bring,
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,
A book separate, not link’d with the rest nor felt by the intellect,
But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.