...the power to look back at him: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west — sun there half an hour high — I see you also face to face. The sense of sight dominates the poem, and the speaker's relation to his pretext, the scene, is "face...

...barrier on which the lines of a Walt Whitman poem were cut out along the entire length of the fence. "And you that shall cross from shore to shore years...and more in my meditations than you might suppose." She gripped tightly with her hands and leaned out as far as she could, "Look." She slid aside and Stone...

...documentary realism with a lyrical vision of the democratic pulse of urban culture, with lines such as: "on the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that...cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose."16 This mixture of forms is also evident in the literary and cinematic idioms of Manhatta,...

...returning home from work at sundown on the Fulton Ferry across the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn - "Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!" (308) - the poem does not rest in the joy of the immediate and the material. For one thing, it naturalizes...

...call, Detective Sachs. I should go. And I am truly sorry about your captain." The Broken Window / 297 '"You that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more to my meditations, than you might suppose.'" Sitting on a bench, overlooking the East River, Pam Willoughby...