Skovparti ved Hellebæk. Eftermiddag
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Hermann Carmiencke painted "Skovparti ved Hellebæk. Eftermiddag" (Forest View near Hellebæk. Afternoon) in oil on canvas in 1835. The subject is the wooded landscape near Hellebæk, on the northern coast of Zealand in Denmark.
The work dates from the period of Danish landscape painting associated with the so-called Golden Age, when artists worked closely from the Danish countryside. It is held in the collection of the SMK — National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Background drawn from SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Today's poem
Locations and Times.
LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?
Walt Whitman · Public domain
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Walt Whitman, often called the father of free verse, was an American poet, essayist, and journalist whose work fused transcendentalism and realism. His 1855 collection *Leaves of Grass* provoked controversy, with some critics denouncing its overt sensuality as obscene. He is now regarded as one of the most influential poets in both American and world literature.
"Locations and Times" is a brief, two-line poem cast in the unmetered, unrhymed lines characteristic of Whitman's free verse. It consists entirely of questions, asking what within the self allows the poet to feel at home in any place or moment, and what quality corresponds to the physical world.
The poem catalogues sensory particulars—forms, colors, densities, odors—in the accumulative manner typical of Whitman, then turns them inward. Its subject is the relationship between the individual self and the surrounding world, and the capacity of the mind to meet and answer external experience.
Background drawn from PoetryDB & Wikipedia