Comments on: NOT MEAGRE, LATENT BOUGHS ALONE http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/02/not-meagre-latent-boughs-alone/ Just another Looking for Whitman weblog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 By: justin http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/11/02/not-meagre-latent-boughs-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:18 +0000 http://camdenannotation.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=103#comment-64 In this poem, Whitman expresses his desire to touch people with his work. He compares his poetry (or songs as he calls them here) to undecorated tree branches: they are “scaly and bare” because they have yet to reach people. He feels as though something needs to happen to make his bare branches flower and bear fruit so that people will be moved by what he has produced.

haply: by chance; accidentally

verdant: a very poetic, classical word for green.

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