by Whitman · Cluster: Comradeship · Union · Hands Hand in Hand
Abstract
Poet records not the battle-ship or great city but two men kissing in parting on a pier; comradely love privileged over public grandeur.
Connections
Motifs: Sea, Letters and Writing Themes & Concepts: Comradeship, Romantic Love, Body
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: CALAMUS
What think you I take my pen in hand to record? The battle-ship, perfect-model’d, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail? The splendors of the past day? or the splendor of the night that envelops me? Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me? —no; But merely of two simple men I saw to-day on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other’s neck and passionately kiss’d him, While the one to depart tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.