Premium Content Reconciling Disparate Objects in "Leaves of Grass"
By Nathaniel Popper - February 19, 2002
Walt Whitman's begins this excerpt from Leaves of Grass by describing an elusive 'this':
"This is the meal pleasantly set . . . . this is the meat and drink for natural hunger."
These two clauses that are set next to each other describe 'this' as very different things. "A meal pleasantly set," evokes a quiet table in a genteel household. In contrast…
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