by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Poet doubts whether the worldly shadow-self is really him, but never doubts his identity among lovers and songs; identity, self and soul, the double.
Connections
Topoi: Double Motifs: Mirror Themes & Concepts: Identity, Self-Knowledge, Comradeship
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But among my lovers and caroling these songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me.