Walt Whitman

A Farm-picture

A Farm-picture - meaning Summary

Pastoral Calm and Openness

This very short poem sketches a single pastoral scene seen through an open barn door: sunlight on a pasture, grazing cattle and horses, a hazy vista and a distant horizon. The image emphasizes calm, spaciousness, and a seamless connection between built and natural spaces. It invites the reader to pause and observe rural life as unadorned, luminous, and quietly expansive without argument or narrative development.

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THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

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