Primeval My Love for the Woman I Love
Primeval My Love for the Woman I Love - fact Summary
Appears in Leaves of Grass
This short Whitman lyric celebrates an intense, elemental love that blurs gendered roles and bodily limits. The speaker names a beloved in both feminine and masculine terms, presenting love as both physical desire and spiritual consolation. The poem emphasizes union and transcendence: the self is lifted or disembodied into the "regions of your love," where companionship provides enduring consolation and ecstatic identity beyond ordinary life.
Read Complete AnalysesPRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, the thought of you! Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born, The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation, I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man, O sharer of my roving life.
Feel free to be first to leave comment.