Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb
Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb - fact Summary
From Leaves of Grass
This short Whitman lyric appears in his collection Leaves of Grass. It addresses a "solid, ironical, rolling orb" and records a decisive, practical acceptance of worldly terms. The speaker shifts from idealized dreaming to testing those ideals against ordinary, even "vulgar" measures, framing the moment as a personal reckoning between heroic love and pragmatic reality.
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