by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Gift reserved for a hero or rebel is bestowed instead on a singer; music and song, the cause of freedom, the rebel/common artist.
Connections
Archetypes: Rebel Motifs: Music and Song Themes & Concepts: Democracy, Artist and Society Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
Here, take this gift,
I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or general,
One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the
progress and freedom of the race,
Some brave confronter of despots, some daring rebel;
But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.