DDCPoetry

Poem found here: "A Glimpse" by Walt Whitman Do you know those scenes in Romantic movies where time slows down, the music stops, and then our couple looks in each other's eyes and the connection is there.  Well that's what is portrayed. The overall feel of this poem is that moment.  However, the speaker admits this moment through the title itself, "a glimpse" who is the one peeking "A glimpse, through an interstice caught, / of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove."  Note how the poem starts on the outside and focuses in.   Here the crowd is of "workmen and drivers," innocuous enough, but also note that this is in a bar-room, "late of a winter night -- and I unremark'd seated in a corner;" in which it is cold and the speaker separates himself from the others. But the semi-colon of the line connects his need to be alone with, "Of a youth who loves me, and whom I love, silently approaching, and /...