I have this book since 1997. |
During this golden week, I was thinking and writing on Whitman.
The Song of the Open Road has brought me five points as follows:
1) From now on, “I” go out to the open road, leaving the house behind.
2) Walking on the road, “I” am passing with strangers.
3) And now here, “I” feel oneness with people in the open air.
4) But “we” must not stay here and go toward something great.
5) “I” will give myself to “you”, one of the souls of men or women.
“I” cannot live alone and at the same time “we” cannot live without souls.
What do you think who “you” are at the last scene (point 5)?
Whitman says it is you as a reader, I think.
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