Tuesday, December 31, 2002

A Glimpse Comments

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A GLIMPSE, through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove,
late of a winter night--And I unremark'd seated in a corner;
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Walt Whitman
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Sylvia Frances Chan 09 June 2022

THREE: fully occupied drinking people there. Interstice means we can observe each person unseen. Typical poem by Walt Whitman about being gay. Remarkable Classic Poem Of The Day

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Sylvia Frances Chan 09 June 2022

TWO: although amidst the big noise, In the title and the first line, we find the word "glimpse" means an observation. Perhaps it is about the secret that we can look "through an interstice caught" means with the way looking an interstice and we see a room.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 09 June 2022

ONE: "A Quiet observation in the middle of the noise, and drunken raillery, about love amongst two men, one of them is young but they love each other and feel their happiness

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 08 June 2022

A very interesting poem with compelling images.

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Chinedu Dike 08 June 2022

I really admire his brave utterances, at a time when homosexuality was regarded as a very serious taboo with dire consequences.

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Jose Gonzalez 17 April 2022

I like this poem here the speaker is with a love and they are enjoying each other's company and the world pays them no mind. I love these moments with you in your own mind

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Brian Knox McGugan 24 February 2022

I absolutely LOATHE the terrible AI voice... WW would roll over in his grave, if he hasn't already! Terrible 😫

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Dr Dillip K Swain 10 August 2021

The close interaction between the youth and experience on the platform of fleeting time is reflected here!

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Suryendu Chaudhury 01 October 2020

The feeling of solidarity is given eminence.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 26 February 2019

Happy in being together. Wonderful feeling.

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Britte Ninad 11 June 2018

o dear look; please look at me the dust of dusk is greetings the darkness the light of lantern is in the hand of caravan everything is visible on your sight but I am; an opaque love please look at me.....

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Mahtab Bangalee 31 May 2018

Of a youth who loves me, and whom I love, silently approaching, and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand;

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Susan Williams 18 April 2018

interstice- -an interval of time.. So perhaps Whitman was there as an older man and sees himself as a young man.... that is intriguing!

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Edward Kofi Louis 18 April 2018

A Winter Night! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 18 April 2018

There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.......here is the essence of the ooem. Beautifully crafted.

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Kumarmani Mahakul 18 April 2018

So touchingly inscribed. Beautiful poem. I appreciate this poem.

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Bernard F. Asuncion 18 April 2018

Such a great write by Walt Whitman👍👍👍

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Dr.subhendu Kar 28 October 2016

Beautiful write, yet soul within seems to talk in silence when words become wordless.

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Patricia Grantham 18 April 2015

An interesting but endearing write. The pub was noisy but two souls was enamored with each other. Good piece.

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Konigan Barrutman 03 October 2014

Ah, this is the right joke - all those people sitting in corners. In pubs. They had nothing on Whitman. He would have sat there all night he would. Plenty of inspiration. And then this other figure...proving he really knows how pubs were in those days. To sit out alone, like that.

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