by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
A brief free-verse meditation on ownership, vista and the ever-continued journey toward what will yet be supplied; the open road, progress and the self.
Connections
Topoi: Open Road Homecoming Motifs: Journey Themes & Concepts: Self, Critique of Progress Forms & Genres: Free Verse, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: BY THE ROADSIDE
Of ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter
upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
Of vista—suppose some sight in arriere through the formative chaos,
presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain’d on the journey,
(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become
supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in
what will yet be supplied.