Tuesday, December 31, 2002

The Ship Starting Comments

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LO! THE unbounded sea!
On its breast a Ship starting, spreading all her sails--an ample
Ship, carrying even her moonsails;
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Walt Whitman
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Katherine Hunter 04 January 2013

Mm, sounds like another Whitman poem allegorical to s e x. (This is suppose to be posting to THE SHIP STARTING, which for some reason refuses to do no matter what attempts I make.)

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Cj Housh 02 December 2005

A simple poem about a ship? Or a reference about how a person or even a nation stands beautiful among churning seas? The time period that this was written, it is plausible that he saw the Union as a kind of ship, beautiful and surrounded by 'foam.'

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