An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Autopatheia [Dedicated to Walt Whitman]

Saerasmid. "Autopatheia [Dedicated to Walt Whitman]." New York Saturday Press, March 17, 1860, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

A depressing poem about the unstoppable passing of time and the inevitability of death. It also echoes the purposelessness of life as it is a continuous circle; furthermore, the final lines are "I will sleep!"