I Saw In Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing
By: Walt Whitman
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches;
Without any Companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself;
But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there,
without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not;
And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined
around it a little moss,
And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room;
It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
(For I believe lately I think of little else than them)
Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love;
For all that and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide
flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,
I know very well I could not.
I like this poem because it is easier to understand. Also I think that he is talking about how he doesn't get how people could go through life without someone to lean on.
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