I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

Walt Whitman * Track #53 On Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

1855

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

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Whitman reflects on a live-oak he saw in Louisiana which reminded him of himself, but had a stark difference in that it was able to live its life in solitude.

This poem also reflects on the sexuality of Walt Whitman. That he relates to the longing feelings of the tree surrounded by other species, p...

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Annotated

I 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 near, for I knew I could not,
And I 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 of 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
in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.

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