The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The India-Rubber Man

"The India-Rubber Man." New York Saturday Press, September 12, 1865, 74.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

A poem about a "Rubber man" whom the speaker despises because of his ability to always come out on top. Eventually, the speaker realizes that the "undying, everlasting soul" of the other man has endured much pain and sympathizes with him.