Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something there is more immortal even than the stars, I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,) (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper, Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?Ĭonsiderest thou alone the burial of the stars? The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.

The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again, Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition, The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious, With these kisses let me remove your tears, Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all, Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,Īmid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,Īscends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,Īnd nigh at hand, only a very little above,įrom the beach the child holding the hand of her father, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading, Poem On the Beach at Night By Walt Whitman The first and third stanzas are made up of three lines. He thinks it is not, so he then tells her something that makes her forget about them (probably that they can spend time together doing something else). The father then asks if the stars are what is bothering her. The father tries to tell the daughter that the stars are immortal but the clouds are not, so they will be there once again. They watch as they see Jupiter and Pleiades however, then they start to see clouds and the clouds soon overtake the sky. The first three stanzas speak of a father and daughter watching the stars at night. 'On the Beach at Night' is a poem written by Walt Whitman.

On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman Analysis

First suggestion problem indirection