"There Was a Child Went Forth" is a poem written by Walt Whitman in 1855 and later included in the collection of poems entitled Autumn Rivulets.[1][2][3][4] It is an account of a childhood, and is considered to be autobiographical.[citation needed] The poem presents a mixture of country and city scenes as the poet records his memories of early domestic scenes and his parents. This poem also reveals his inclination towards his mother more than his father.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ "AUTUMN RIVULETS. ( Leaves of Grass (1891-92)) - The Walt Whitman Archive". whitmanarchive.org. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
- ^ Tian, Junwu (2019-10-02). "Metaphor of Child Journey and America Growth in Walt Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth"". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 32 (4): 240–243. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2018.1543575. ISSN 0895-769X. S2CID 166191402.
- ^ Demirtrk, E.L. 1985, "Walt Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth": The Image of 'Edges' in the Origins of Life", Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 41.
- ^ Aspiz, Harold (1966). "Educating the Kosmos: "There Was a Child Went Forth"". American Quarterly. 18 (4): 655–666. doi:10.2307/2711388. ISSN 0003-0678. JSTOR 2711388.