I Dream’d in a Dream
I Dream’d in a Dream - meaning Summary
A City of Friendship
Whitman imagines an indestructible city founded on friendship and "robust love." The poem presents love as the dominant civic force, visible in people’s actions, looks, and words, suggesting a social order organized around mutual care rather than power. This short utterance offers a concentrated vision of an ideal community consistent with themes in Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s lifelong advocacy for democratic fellowship.
Read Complete AnalysesI DREAM’D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream’d that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words. 5
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