Earth! my Likeness!
Read 'Earth! my Likeness!' by 'Walt Whitman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
EARTH! my likeness!
Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
I now suspect that is not all;
I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth;
For an athlete is enamour’d of me—and I of him;
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.
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