Visor’d

Visor’d - fact Summary

Included in Leaves of Grass

This brief lyric is included in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. It personifies a "mask" as a perpetual, natural disguiser that conceals face and form and undergoes constant change, even in sleep. The poem presents masking and continual transformation as ordinary conditions, signaling Whitman’s recurring concern with fluid identity and the shifting relation between outward appearance and inward being.