Walt Whitman Poem

I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING

 SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,

All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;

Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,

And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;

But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not;

And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,

And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room;

It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,

(For I believe lately I think of little else than them:)

Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love;

For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space,

Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,

I know very well I could not.

I like this poem because I like fall. It talked about trees and leaves.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was a poet and journalist. He was born May 31, 1819 -March 26, 1892. He was a romanticist because he wrote about romanticism. He wrote the poetry collection called leaves of grass.

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