All 4 Uses of
extricate
in
Leaves of Grass
- Less the reminders of properties told my words,
And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and
women fully equipt,
And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that
plot and conspire.†Chpt 3 *extrication = the act of freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty
- Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd
The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication,
When lo!†Chpt 24
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I turn but do not extricate myself,
Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.†Chpt 28extricate = free or remove from constraint or difficulty
- In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
disease shalt swelter,
The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
with hectic,
But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
extricating, fusing,
Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)
Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of†Chpt 31extricating = freeing or removing from constraint or difficulty