by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Opposes the historian of surfaces with himself as chanter of personality projecting the history of the future; prophet-poet, identity, the common man.
Connections
Topoi: Poet as Prophet Motifs: Time Themes & Concepts: Identity, Common Man Forms & Genres: Free Verse
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: INSCRIPTIONS
You who celebrate bygones,
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life
that has exhibited itself,
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,
rulers and priests,
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself
in his own rights,
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself,
(the great pride of man in himself,)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,
I project the history of the future.