One of the things that really amaze me in SL is the power of coincidence. I never really got an interest in Whitman. I read it since someone told me it was something profound. I browsed and found this title “Beginning my Studies”. Before reading, the restless metaphor-maker inside me told me “you’re also beginning your studies: your Ph. D in Human Sciences, from SL University. So why not read the poem and learn something from this great man?”
And I read it, and I read words that, though much better chosen than mine, meant exactly why I’m going through. What a coincidence.
Beginning My Studies
by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
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Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
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