Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BEAUTIFUL SWIMMER, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea Last Line: Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse. Subject(s): Drowning; Gays & Lesbians | ||||||||
I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous I see his white body, I see his undaunted eyes, I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks. What are you doing you ruffianly red-trickled waves? Will you kill the courageous giant? will you kill him in the prime of his middl Steady and long he struggles, He is baffled, bang'd, bruis'd, he holds out while his strength holds out, The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood, they bear him away, they roll h His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruis'd o Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FEMALE MASCULINITY by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE ASS FESTIVAL by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THIS ONE'S FOR YOU by JAN HELLER LEVI I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S BODY by TIMOTHY LIU A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
|