| Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. Gear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and... | |
| United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 742 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well center-tied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery... | |
| Richard Chase - 1967 - 50 pages
...autonomy of the self, which is "a mystery" not to be discovered by mere "trippers and askers" and yet is Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights,...Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical. From the very beginning the poem assumes a dialogue form, as is suitable for a prophet-poet, by addressing... | |
| Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...life in all its variety and dynamism: Urge and urge and urge. Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life."' The great Americanist critic RWB Lewis once noted that reading Whitman feels like reading "the first... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1961 - 196 pages
...heaven or hell than there is now. 35 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance .... Always substance and increase, Always a knit of identity .... always distinction .... always a breed of life. To elaborate is no avail ....... | |
| Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 pages
...without wishing to absolve it: "Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, / Always substance . . . always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life" (CRE, p. 31). To exclude nothing but exclusion, deny nothing but denial, allows the poet even to shrug... | |
| James S. Hans - 1990 - 182 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. (38-46) Well aware of America's regularly apocalyptic tendencies, and even more aware of the American... | |
| Paul Lauter - 1991 - 315 pages
...more inception than there is now . . . Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. The real challenge lies not in closing the American mind to distinction, but in listening to the choir... | |
| M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 1989 - 222 pages
...more perfection than there is now. 1 1 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance .... Always substance and increase, Always a knit of identity .... always distinction .... always a breed of life. This is the assurance Whitman... | |
| Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...the body; out of this certainty arises an apprehension of the mysterious doubleness of the witness: "Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights,...haughty, electrical, / I and this mystery here we stand" (LG, 31). 2. Don Byrd, Charles Olson's Maximus (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1980), xiii. Olson received... | |
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