Not Youth Pertains to Me
Read 'Not Youth Pertains to Me' by 'Walt Whitman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Not Youth Pertains to Me by Walt Whitman
NOT youth pertains to me,
Nor delicatesse—I cannot beguile the time with talk;
Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;
In the learn’d coterie sitting constrain’d and still—for learning. inures
not to
me;
Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things inure to me;
I have nourish’d the wounded, and sooth’d many a dying soldier,
And at intervals, waiting, or in the midst of camp,
Composed these songs.
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