by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Opening of Children of Adam: speaker as new Adam re-ascending to the garden with Eve, celebrating the body and resurrection through love; Edenic, sexual, cyclic.
Connections
Topoi: Eternal Return Archetypes: Lover Themes & Concepts: Body, Sexuality Forms & Genres: Free Verse Historical References: Bible Settings: Garden (2)
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CHILDREN OF ADAM
To the garden the world anew ascending,
Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
Amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for
reasons, most wondrous,
Existing I peer and penetrate still,
Content with the present, content with the past,
By my side or back of me Eve following,
Or in front, and I following her just the same.