by Whitman · Cluster: Identity · Free Verse · Eternal Return
Abstract
Tiny lyric on the self as a child pleased with the sound of its own name; identity, the self, childhood, and language.
Connections
Archetypes: Child Motifs: Childhood Themes & Concepts: Self, Identity Forms & Genres: Fragment
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: AUTUMN RIVULETS
What am I after all but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own
name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
To you your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in
the sound of your name?