http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/02/life-and-death/ 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/life-and-death/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:48:47 +0000 http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=81#comment-107 This poem seems to be one of Whitman’s most straightforward. It seems to just want to state that as time passes each generation continues to face the same problems as the prior. I think in particular he is talking about death and how we become more familiar with every coming year of our lives.

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