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Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
30
Running to somewhere around 70 pages and divided into 52 sections
many settings, time periods, viewpoints and personas
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Walt Whitman had some radical ideas about America, democracy, spirituality, sexuality, nature and identity
He used 'Song of Myself' to explore those ideas while preaching self-knowledge, liberty and acceptance for all.
free-form and loose structure, its compelling rhythms, multiple themes and shifting narrators,
one of the first truly modern poems
No one had ever read anything quite like it before
I celebrate myself,' declares Walt Whitman's sprawling poem 'Song of Myself.
First published in 1855
in Leaves of Grass
T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg
some of Whitman's passages are so steamy (more on that soon) that they shocked contemporary readers
Emily Dickinson
1830 – 1886
'I have never read his book, but I was told that he was disgraceful.'
Poem Summary
Song of Myself' is not a poem with a clear plotline or single point to make.
one of Whitman's favorite ideas is that we're all equal