{"id":795,"date":"2021-01-31T08:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:10:53","slug":"i-sit-and-look-out-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/i-sit-and-look-out-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"I sit and look out (Walt Whitman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/I_sit_and_look_out_Walt_Whitman.jpg\" alt=\"I sit and look out Walt Whitman\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/I_sit_and_look_out_Walt_Whitman.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/I_sit_and_look_out_Walt_Whitman-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>IO SIEDO E GUARDO<\/p>\n<p>Io siedo e guardo tutte le sofferenze del mondo, tutta<br \/>\nl&#8217;oppressione la vergogna,<br \/>\nio odio i convulsi singhiozzi segreti dei giovani angosciati<br \/>\ncon se stessi, in preda al rimorso delle azioni commesse,<br \/>\nio vedo nella vita umile la madre maltrattata dai figli,<br \/>\nmorente, abbandonata, smunta, disperata,<br \/>\nio vedo la moglie maltrattata dal marito, vedo il seduttore<br \/>\ningannevole di giovani donne,<br \/>\nio noto gli strazi della gelosia e dell&#8217;amore respinto<br \/>\nche cercano di nascondersi, io vedo tutto questo sulla terra,<br \/>\nio vedo l&#8217;opera della guerra, della pestilenza, della tirannia,<br \/>\nio vedo martiri e prigionieri,<br \/>\nio osservo la fame sul mare, osservo i marinai che tirano<br \/>\na sorte per stabilire chi dovr\u00e0 essere ucciso perch\u00e9 gli altri vivano,<br \/>\nio osservo le umiliazioni e le degradazioni inflitte dai<br \/>\nprepotenti ai lavoratori, ai poveri, ai negri e agli altri;<br \/>\ntutto questo&#8230; tutta la meschinit\u00e0 e la sofferenza senza<br \/>\nfine io contemplo standomene qui seduto,<br \/>\nvedo, ascolto, e taccio.<\/p>\n<p><em>Walt Whitman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>* * *<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I see the wife misused by her husband\u2014I see the treacherous seducer of young women; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid\u2014I see these sights on the earth; 5<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny\u2014I see martyrs and prisoners; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I observe a famine at sea\u2014I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill\u2019d, to preserve the lives of the rest; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like; <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>All these\u2014All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon, <\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>See, hear, and am silent.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foto-pensieri","tag-walt-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}