Eloquent Silence, graphite on wall, dimensions variable, 2012 The list is from Walt Whitman’s Archive.  As he prepared to write the poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Whitman drew up the following list of synonyms.

Eloquent Silence, graphite on wall, dimensions variable, 2012

The list is from Walt Whitman’s Archive. 

As he prepared to write the poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Whitman drew up the following list of synonyms.
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