by Whitman · Cluster: Heroism · Hero · Last Stand
Abstract
The whole heirdom of human history and art converges in the present ‘thee’, a meditation on time and inheritance.
Connections
Archetypes: Hero Motifs: Time, Book Reading Themes & Concepts: Memory and Time, Immortality of Art Fame Forms & Genres: Free Verse Historical References: Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: SANDS AT SEVENTY
The appointed winners in a long-stretch’d game;
The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;
The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments,
Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books,
Garner’d for now and thee—To think of it!
The heirdom all converged in thee!