The Pregnant Muse: Language and Birth in "A Song of the Rolling Earth"

James D Griffin

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1001

Essays

The Pregnant Muse: Language and Birth in "A Song of the Rolling Earth"

Abstract

Argues that in "A Song of the Rolling Earth" Whitman offers his most complete and in-depth explication of the relation between "two tropes--the unprintable word and the fertile earth mother," and contends that "it is here, if anywhere, that Whitman 'makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot touch.'"

Keywords: Essay, Literary Tropes, Poetic Language, Language, Analogy, A Song of the Rolling Earth

How to Cite: Griffin, J. D. (1983) “The Pregnant Muse: Language and Birth in "A Song of the Rolling Earth"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 1(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1001