In the canon
Ode to Walt Whitman
- Form
- Form Poem
- Year
- Year 1930
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 4
A poet addresses Walt Whitman directly across the East River, praising him as a rough and dignified lover of men, then turns in fury on the modern city that has made a cheap spectacle of that love.
Not for a moment, Walt Whitman, lovely old man, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies
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