It's not about one person because I have researched that Whitemans sexuality was described as a bisexual. I had made an assumption saying that he had lost someone very close to him but that is clearly wrong. When Walt Whiteman says "I can't talk to you, but to only think of you", I think that's an indirect message to his lover because it is the 1820's where it is unacceptable. I think that's it's written to his lover because it has been said that he A few intimate relationships with men such as;Peter Doyle and Bill Duckett. Bill Duckett because he had actually moved in with him for several years. So there's this evidence but he also had relationships with women such as Ellen Gray. I wonder if that was just a coverup because he couldn't love the same sex openly.
In the line "I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you", to me that sounds that in a different life he could love a male openly. Basically being reincarnated.
I really like a few of your ideas, like the cover up part. Do you have evidence it was a cover up rather than his being bisexual? I like that you started to explore the idea of reincarnation. I wonder… could the line also just be him dreaming?
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