...this manner; nevertheless the world Whitman sees denies that linearity at every level. As he tells us, "There was never any more inception than there is...will never be any more perfection than there is now." The poet has no sympathy with the traditional vision that prompts one to deny the present by wishing...

...talking .... the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...will never be any more perfection than there is now. 1 1 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals...

...Myself, as it later came to be called, he had celebrated what would become known as the "Now Generation:" There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. That was before the Civil War. But by the time the war was over, in a few short years, he had begun...

...variety and awareness of variety. The good of the earth and the sun? "There are millions of suns left." There was never any more inception than there is now,...Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. The very wild and rough and stubborn wood which Virgil rescues Dante from — the matter of the poet's...

...were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals...

...were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. 40 There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, 45 Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals...

...worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and pokeweed. Epistrophe, less frequent, is more subtle: There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procréant urge of the world. But many passages reveal more various...

...the talk of the beginning or the end" by which lie means the Bible was bibling); still, he declares, There was never any more inception than there is now,...perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven and hell than there is now. He demands to be taken literally and requires to be taken figuratively....

...were talking.. .the talk of the beginning and the end, but I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. ...I am satisfied...! see, dance, laugh, sing..." Walt Whitman Coaching Delivery One of the most difficult...

...talking .... the talk of the beginning and the end, so But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals...