I celebrate myself and sing myself analysis

    • What is the purpose of Song of myself?

      the "Song of Myself ll was a general attempt to put the poet's thoughts in order. However, in fitting his thought pattern into the three divisions suggested by Plato--beginning, mid­


    • What holds the song of myself together?

      Perhaps, the answer is that it is the very detail 'that holds the "Song of Myself" together. Mattie Swayne, in her study of Whitman's catalogue method, lends emphasis to this idea when she asserts that the catalogue is a permanent and deliberate feature of the poet's art.21 And, in developing her claim, she recognizes



    • How are the terms brought together in song of myselfll?

      of "Song of Myselftt) the terms are brought together in a struc­ tural conclusion, but in others (11. 21-29 of "Song of Myselfll) the terms are not made into a sentence. 3. Both the bare objects and those amplified by descrip- tion are lengthened into dependent clauses or com- .


    • WHITMAN AND THE EMANCIPATED SELF - JSTOR

      I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.4 Whitman seeks the ego that is the justification of life. He displays himself as the democratic-divine example of this ego set in motion to find itself. In pursuing Simmel's observation that "Eighteenth century liber


    • [PDF File]The Idea of Self in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and Emily ...

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      The word ‘myself’ is at the vortex of Whitman’s thought process. The very title and first line suggest the poet’s desire to celebrate himself. “I celebrate myself , and sing myself,” (Section 1, line 1) The opening section states the theme viz. a complete identity between himself and the rest of humanity.


    • [PDF File]SONG OF MYSELF - edX

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      SONG OF MYSELF Walt Whitman 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,


    • BEYOND THE MYTH OF NARCISSUS: THE ROLE OF THE READER ... - JSTOR

      The very first stanza of «Song of Myself» contains in itself the central message of the poem, the identification between the poet's voice and the reader: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. (25) 7


    • [PDF File]I celebrate myself, and sing myself, - Walt Whitman

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      The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events; These come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,


    • [PDF File]Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

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      confidence, but where now is the poet who greeted us by saying, "I celebrate myself and sing myself"? By way of answer, note that for about 150 lines the passages lead­ ing up to this breakdown have described loss and suffering: the wife screaming at the sight of her husband's drowned corpse, the rescue at sea, the runaway slave, "the


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