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Walt Whitman - To a Stranger
PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me
as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate,
chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours
only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you
take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

Carol, read the biography of Walt Whitman here:

[www.americanpoems.com]

Les

I could use some help analyzing Maya Angelou's poem, "Phenomenal Woman." Please, please. Thank you.

tlc, there is a discussion of that poem here:

[endeavor.med.nyu.edu]

Les

I could use some help analyzing the poem "Alone" by Maya Angelou

As for the Walt Whitman poem,
I believe that, as he looked on a passing stranger, he made an identity of them in his mind, possibly (but probably not) recognizing them as one of his past, though he seems not to be at a single place in time, but refers to any time that a stranger crosses his path.
In clearer English, he is curious of all the people he doesn't know, and possibly wishes to know them. But instead, he creates a make-believe life for them in his head.