What is it like to go to a place so personal and familiar and finding just a hole in the ground, which marked the least important place of a landmark? The house's asshole?
He traveled home and found his mothers legacy ploughed over and demolished and replaced with bland exterior decoration.
Whitman most likely drew the comparison as the destruction of material legacy and the claims humans have on what is left when they perish into the earth. Do we ever leave anything behind? What he attempted to do was leave something worth noting and saving. A real heir and legacy that was not only astonishing but a representation of his personal self. And he succeeded.
He traveled home and found his mothers legacy ploughed over and demolished and replaced with bland exterior decoration.
Whitman most likely drew the comparison as the destruction of material legacy and the claims humans have on what is left when they perish into the earth. Do we ever leave anything behind? What he attempted to do was leave something worth noting and saving. A real heir and legacy that was not only astonishing but a representation of his personal self. And he succeeded.
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