by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
A four-line free-verse vignette of a lean, sinewy athlete in motion; an imagistic celebration of the healthy body and bodily energy.
Connections
Motifs: Road Themes & Concepts: Body Forms & Genres: Free Verse, Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: BY THE ROADSIDE
On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais’d.