by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
A terse rebuke to a president who has not learned the amplitude and impartiality of Nature; free-verse political epigram on the natural order, nation and reform.
Connections
Themes & Concepts: Natural Order, Reform, Democracy, Power and Corruption Forms & Genres: Free Verse, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: BY THE ROADSIDE
All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
You have not learn’d of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have
not learn’d the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from
these States.