O Sun of Real Peace
O Sun of Real Peace - meaning Summary
Vision of Triumphant Peace
Whitman's short poem exults in a forthcoming, radiant peace and the ascendancy of an idealized world. Addressing a luminous sun and his poetic ideal, the speaker celebrates the end of conflict, projects new history and heroes, and asserts poetry's lasting power. Overwhelmed by the future's brightness, he briefly returns to the present, balancing prophetic zeal with caution while endorsing optimism about democracy and the transformative role of poetic vision.
Read Complete AnalysesO SUN of real peace! O hastening light! O free and extatic! O what I here, preparing, warble for! O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—and you too, O my Ideal, will surely ascend! O so amazing and broad—up there resplendent, darting and burning! O vision prophetic, stagger’d with weight of light! with pouring glories! O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless! O ample and grand Presidentiads! Now the war, the war is over! New history! new heroes! I project you! Visions of poets! only you really last! sweep on! sweep on! O heights too swift and dizzy yet! O purged and luminous! you threaten me more than I can stand! (I must not venture—the ground under my feet menaces me—it will not support me: O future too immense,)—O present, I return, while yet I may, to you.
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