In the New Garden in All the Parts
In the New Garden in All the Parts - meaning Summary
Longing for the Future Woman
The speaker wanders modern cities and landscapes but feels continuous with earlier ages and untouched by death. He reflects on time, memory, and an identity that persists across eras. Addressing a woman yet unborn, he declares a determined search for her in the future. The poem frames longing and connection as forces that bridge past, present, and far-off generations.
Read Complete AnalysesIN the new garden, in all the parts, In cities now, modern, I wander, Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet, Days, places, indifferent—though various, the same, Time, Paradise, the Mannahatta, the prairies, finding me unchanged, Death indifferent—Is it that I lived long since? Was I buried very long ago? For all that, I may now be watching you here, this moment; For the future, with determined will, I seek—the woman of the future, You, born years, centuries after me, I seek.
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