by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Dedicates the one (of contradictions) to Nationality while leaving in him the quenchless fire of revolt; democracy, the rebel, identity.
Connections
Archetypes: Rebel Themes & Concepts: Nationalism and Patriotism, Identity, Reform Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
Still though the one I sing,
(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O
quenchless, indispensable fire!)