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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age | |||
To get the final lilt of songs, To penetrate the inmost lore of poets''"to know the mighty ones, Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson; To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt''"to truly understand, To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price, Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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