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QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: APPROACHING, NEARING, CURIOUS
Last Line: DULL, PARROT-LIKE AND OLD, WITH CRACK'D VOICE HARPING, SCREECHING?
Subject(s): OLD AGE;
Approaching, nearing, curious,
Thou dim, uncertain spectre -- bringest thou life or death?
Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?
Or haply cut me short for good? Or leave me here as now,
Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?



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