Germany / 2021 / 10mins

Walt Whitman is one of the most important poets in American literature. His poem Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City, tells of his liaison with an unknown woman. Some sixty years after the initial publication, he admitted that it was about an affair with a man. The poem is dedicated, on the one hand, to its autobiographical context, and on the other hand, to its content, the profoundly quiet, yet powerful story of two lovers.