by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Exuberant catalogue of two inseparable comrades roaming, mocking statutes and owning no law but themselves; comradeship, the open road, rebellion and the body.
Connections
Topoi: Open Road Homecoming Archetypes: Rebel Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Romantic Love, Body
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving. No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, Fulfilling our foray.