LOVE POEM

 

Read this poem by Walt Whitman about love,

Do you like it? Why?

Biography

Walt Whitman is America’s world poet

 In Leaves of Grass (1855), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship.

 This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and reassurance even in death.

Along with Emily Dickinson Whitman is regarded as one of America’s most significant 

nineteenth century poets.

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A Glimpse (uno sguardo)

A glimpse through an interstice caught,

Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,

Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,

A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,

There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.