by Whitman · Cluster: Transience · Decay · Carpe Diem
Abstract
A short free-verse epigram pairing youth/age and day/night, affirming that old age and the restoring night follow with equal grace.
Connections
Motifs: Night, Sun, Seasons Themes & Concepts: Transience Forms & Genres: Free Verse, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Youth, large, lusty, loving—youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force, fascination?
Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness.