 Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night, that...  Leaves of Grass - Seite 250von Walt Whitman - 1883 - 382 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Harold Bloom - 1980 - 436 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not. To walk between the knowledge of death and the thought of death is to walk in a liminal state, to be... | |
 | Sharon Scholl - 1984 - 252 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. most expansive and intricate of the entire work. Both soloists join to portray the spiritual conversation... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...bird I know, receiv'd us comrades three; And he sang what seem'd the song of death, a verse for him I love. (Sequel, p. 9) The repetition of s sounds gives... | |
 | David Miller - 1989 - 368 Seiten
...Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," his great elegy on the death of Lincoln, is embodied in the swamp: I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks...solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. The potential of death for Whitman is the potential for an endlessly dynamic and interactive relationship... | |
 | M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 1989 - 222 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...solemn shadowy cedars, and ghostly pines so still. (my italics) A DECADE OF REVISION: 1866-1876 A double attitude toward the poems dealing with sexual... | |
 | Russell A. Berman - 1993 - 244 Seiten
...And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not. . . .21 There he discovers the possibility of an appropriate incantation, "the carol of the bird,"... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. 125 And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me, The gray-brown bird I know receiv'd us comrades... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 Seiten
...the thought of death closewalking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still. The bird sang the "Carol of Death." Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects... | |
 | John Carlos Rowe - 1997 - 326 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not. . . . ("When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom cl," xiv) Whitman's ambivalence in such oxymorons (or... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1999 - 568 Seiten
...the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle, as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to...in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars, and ghosdy pines so still. And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me; The gray-brown bird I know, receiv'd... | |
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