Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE', by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd Last Line: The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot Subject(s): Evil | ||||||||
The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd, The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage, The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant, Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute; (What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?) Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons, The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AGAIN AND AGAIN I HAVE SEEN LIFE'S EVIL by EUGENIO MONTALE PACKING THE HEART by MARY JO BANG ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL by HILAIRE BELLOC TO A YOUNG AMERICAN THE DAY AFTER THE FALL OF BARCELONA by JOHN CIARDI THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS by NORMAN DUBIE AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ELECTION DAY, 1984 by CAROLYN KIZER A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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