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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
L. OF G.'S PURPORT, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out Last Line: Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | |||
Not to exclude or demarcate, or pick out evils from their formidable masses (even to expose them,) But add, fuse, complete, extend -- and celebrate the immortal and the good. Haughty this song, its words and scope, To span vast realms of space and time, Evolution -- the cumulative -- growths and generations. Begun in ripen'd youth and steadily pursued, Wandering, peering, dallying with all -- war, peace, day and night absorbing, Never even for one brief hour abandoning my task, I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age. I sing of life, yet mind me well of death: To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years -- Draws sometimes close to me, as face to face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB |
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