http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/02/continuities-from-a-talk-i-had-lately-with-a-german-spiritualist/ Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/02/continuities-from-a-talk-i-had-lately-with-a-german-spiritualist/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:04:21 +0000 http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=63#comment-97 In this poem, Walt Whitman speaks about life in terms of spirituality. Though the substances in life will fade away and ultimately die, Whitman notes everything is a circle of life: “Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost;” “ample are time and space;” “ample the fields of Nature;” “The body, slugglish, aged, cold…The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;” “the sun now low…rises for mornings and for noons continual.” Even after the snow covers the entire earth, eventually “spring’s invisible law returns, With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.” The overall tone of the poem is optimistic. He assures the world that even though there may be death and the withering away of life, in the end, there will always be new life. From life, there is death. From death, there is life. Life is a never-ending cycle of continuity.

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