Section 14 pictures "infinite separate houses" and notes how people go on "with [their] meals and minutia of daily usages," until the appearance of the cloud and "a long black trail."
Section 14 pictures "infinite separate houses" and notes how people go on "with [their] meals and minutia of daily usages," until the appearance of the cloud and "a long black trail." Earlier in the piece the speaker asserts that he would hang pictures, "pictures of growing spring, and farms, and homes," on the chamber walls, to adorn the house the one he loves. Section four introduces the thrush whose warble emerges as the "song of the bleeding throat" and helps to conjure up visions of armies and corpses. First published in 1865's Sequel to Drum Taps, sections five through nine depict the passage of a certain politician's coffin and by the work's end the bird's "Death Carol" "twines" with the chant of the poet, the western star, and the title flower, in "the fragrant pines." For ten points, identify this elegy for Abraham Lincoln, a work by Walt Whitman.
Section 14 pictures "infinite separate houses" and notes how people go on "with [their] meals and minutia of daily usages," until the appearance of the cloud and "a long black trail."
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