My Picture Gallery
My Picture Gallery - fact Summary
Included in Leaves of Grass
Whitman describes an imaginary, compact “house” that holds suspended pictures—an inner gallery where memories, scenes of life and death, and vivid tableaux coexist. The poem frames the mind as a small but capacious space that contains the world’s shows, guided by a cicerone figure who directs attention to particular, even wayward, images. It presents memory and imagination as an organized, portable museum of experience.
Read Complete AnalysesIN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories? Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death; Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself, With finger rais’d he points to the prodigal pictures.
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