The Mafia Princess
Art expresses and translates, art acknowledges and reveals, art transfers and art intervenes.
As expected, Hope was bothered by his death. In this part of the poem, Whitman portrays death as just another step on the journey of our lives; it is a continuation rather than an end. He declares that "They are alive and well somewhere, / The smallest sprout shows there is really no death."
And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
He has already described the grass that grows atop the graves of the dead, the grass that grows from mother's laps and their departed children and old men's heads; their mortal bodies are transformed, it seems, into new kinds of life, and so life goes o
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