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In the month of April1865Walt Whitman wrote of his anguish and the ancient mystery of pain as well as the sadness and grief of a nation that mourned the deathofitsPresident Abraham Lincoln. Whitman a poet particularly devoted toAmericaexpressed in his poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomedthe mysteryof pain in an individual and in a nation as he associated the meaningofthe lilac thebirdthe star to the mysterious experience of loss and death.
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Prochaska, B. (2004). The Mystery of Pain: Walt Whitman’s “Lilacs” and Edmund Husserl’s “Meaning”. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Mystery in its Passions: Literary Explorations. Analecta Husserliana, vol 82. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1017-7_7
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