Possible allusions to Walt Whitman

Here is a list of possible allusions to "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd:"

• 2)  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  
  To allusion page discussing lilacs and the death of a loved figure.
  
  
  
• 220)  At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
  221)  Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
  
  To commentary page discussing Hesperus, the western star, alluded to in Eliot's note to line 221
  
  
  
• 356)   Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
  
  To allusion page discussing the hermit thrush.
  
  
  
• 363)  Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
  
  To allusion page discussing death walking beside the poet.
  
  
  
• 428)  Quando fiam uti chelidon--O swallow swallow
  
  To allusion page comparing one poet's singing like a swallow to Whitman's warbling like a hermit thrush.
  
  
  

Additionally there is an allusion possibility to Whitman's "These I Singing in Spring:"

• 210)  Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants
  
  To allusion page discussing the use of currants in "These I Singing in Spring."
  
  
  

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