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The moment of “Now” incessantly empties the past and present in order to open a new “fold of the future,” which becomes the ever-emerging moment of presence. Some of Whitman’s most beautiful lines are here, as when he images the “past and present” as wilted plants, once alive and sentient but now withered and emptied of presence, of life. This section contains Whitman’s plea to the reader to begin the work of responding to what the poet has proposed-to begin to argue, to talk, to co-create the poem.
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