What does spontaneous me

Without the opening line, the emphasis of the beginning of the poem would shift dramatically to the relationship between the speaker of the poem and the "friend" who accompanies him. The poem describes not a particular relationship but a way of relating to nature and to sexuality, and posits an attitude of acceptance and openness to the human body and to the physicality of the natural world.

Lines 4 and 5 collapse time, from the "blossoms of the mountain ash" in spring to the "same late in autumn," providing a sense of cyclical change as a backdrop for the change which is recorded later in the poem, from nighttime fantasies of adolescence to the maternity and paternity of adulthood.

Whitman had marked line 10 for deletion in his Blue Book Whitman's personal copy of the Leaves. The line, however, remained. This section of the poem names directly the connection between the human male body and poetry; out of this connection comes the catalogue of "Love-thoughts," which culminate in the description of the bee "that gripes" the flower as an analogy for human sexual intercourse.

The second half of the poem begins with an image of two lovers sleeping peacefully together perhaps the "friend" of line 2, now after having made love. This image of restful repose is followed by a new character in the poem, a boy who "confides" to the speaker his dreams of unsatisfied longing, and these dreams offer a direct contrast to the "Love-thoughts" section.

All seven. All night long. That would be a good Whitmanic present, I thought. But then, well, went kaboom. When we mark ourselves off in Brady Bunch boxes and talk to our screens. Pandemic living lacks spontaneity. Inertia has taken its place. Or mere existence. Or pain. This reminds me of a one-line poem by Michael McFee :. We accept this loss, this doing less, so that the elderly and immuno-compromised can simply be.

Or at least most of us do. I know that my own life lately has felt like an unnerving advent calendar. I open it one day at a time, unwrapping—knock on wood! At some point soon, I hope to unwrap a vaccine. For the time being, though, I ease my being with beer. That too is a gift.

My favorite beer-makers, de Garde Brewing of Tillamook , Oregon, specialize in wild fermentation. Entropy is part of the pleasure. So too is terroir. Wild fermentation takes on various forms, but de Garde exposes its beer to airborne yeasts. In my opinion, it describes the process of the sexual intercourse in humans. The main idea of the poem is shown in the first line: Spontaneous me, Nature.

He has done so to show from the beginning that the free, uninhibited sexual passion within man is indeed natural. Whitman points out two aspects of nature. Whitman includes all the senses of man, being emotional or touchable, however he emphasizes mostly on the sense of touch. Labels: , american literature , armenian , explication , lebanese , Spontaneous me , walt whitman.

Unknown December 2, at PM.