by Whitman · Cluster: Nationalism and Patriotism · Democracy · Liberty Political Freedom
Abstract
Compact paean to the prairie states as a new modern garden of creation, a teeming democratic paradise justifying the past.
Connections
Motifs: Garden Themes & Concepts: Democracy, Nationalism and Patriotism Forms & Genres: Fragment Settings: American Frontier
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: AUTUMN RIVULETS
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
By all the world contributed—freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s society,
The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time’s accumulations,
To justify the past.