Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PRAIRIE STATES, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude Last Line: To justify the past. Subject(s): Middle West; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States | ||||||||
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one, By all the world contributed -- freedom's and law's and thrift's society, The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations, To justify the past. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE by JAMES GALVIN THE ROAN HORSE' by CARL SANDBURG CRICKET MARCH by CARL SANDBURG JUST BEFORE APRIL CAME by CARL SANDBURG A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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