Whitman’s urban kaleidoscope
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Walt Whitman viveu em Nova Iorque e passou grande parte da sua vida em ambientes urbanos. Não será, portanto, de estranhar que logo no início de Leaves of Grass tenha declarado ser sua intenção cantar a vida urbana, constituindo-se, assim, como o primeiro poeta americano a celebrar a cidade. O que talvez muitos desconheçam é que, por detrás da pretensa atitude de orientação e de celebração da vida urbana, está uma compreensão do lado mais obscuro do ambiente citadino. Tal como um caleidoscópio, a poesia de Whitman apresenta um modelo de espelho-duplo que produz um fluxo constante de perspectivas, ou imagens em movimento, conforme prometido no Prefácio de 1855: «I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains [...] You shall stand by my side and look in the mirror with me.»
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