On The Beach At Night Alone Walt Whitman
He was not only a poet but also an essayist and a journalist.
On the beach at night alone walt whitman. On the beach at night alone. The poet in 1867 expresses himself with more confidence no longer asking questions about the future but offering answers. On the beach at night alone as the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song as i watch the bright stars shining i think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. On the beach at night is written by the american poet walt whitman.
He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism incorporating both views in his works. O n the beach at night alone as the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song as i watch the bright stars shining i think a thought of the clef. Like i said in the beginning being alone on the beach at night is truly an incomparable feeling. He was born in may 31st west his new york in 1819.
On the beach at night alone may be classed among whitman s minor poems but has been the focus of increasing critical attention due to the revisions between the 1856 and 1867 editions of leaves of grass. Poem by walt whitman. Beginning with the title walt whitman frequently utilizes symbolism in poetry on the beach at night alone the beach represents standing on the shore of eternity or afterlife. On the beach at night alone as the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song as i watch the bright stars shining i think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
Of the universes and of the future. In comparisons of ocean and afterlife a colloquialism remarks it takes an even number of rowers to row in a straight line. We started this journey alone on the beach at night. Up through the darkness while ravening clouds the burial clouds in black masses spreading lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east.
Walt whitman 1819 1892 on the beach at night alone as the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song as i watch the bright stars shining i think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. The ocean at night has a certain energy and power that feels eternal dark and deep. It certainly results in the kind of thinking whitman describes in this poem. The ocean is an unknown expanse.
A vast similitude interlocks all.