Both Uses of
disclose
in
Leaves of Grass
- And I saw the free souls of poets,
The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.†Chpt 23undisclosed = not revealedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisclosed means not and reverses the meaning of disclosed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- And I saw the free souls of poets,
The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
Strange large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.†Chpt 23 *disclosed = revealed
Definition:
to reveal (make something known that was previously a secret)