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Alice L. Cook's "A Note on Whitman's Symbolism in 'Song of Myself'" John B. Mason's "Walt Whitman's Catalogues: Rhetorical Means for Two Journeys in "Song of Myself" WhitmanWeb's full text in 12 languages, plus audio recordings and commentaries; Audio: Robert Pinsky reads from "Song of Myself" Archived 2019-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
Particularly in "Song of Myself", Whitman emphasizes an all-powerful "I" who serves as narrator. The "I" attempts to relieve both social and private problems by using powerful affirmative cultural images; [ 36 ] the emphasis on American culture in particular helped reach Whitman's intention of creating a distinctly American epic poem comparable ...
The poem is a dream vision; the first line reads "I wander all night in my vision". [6] At the beginning of the poem, the narrator is described as "Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory".
In "Song of Myself", he gave an inventory of major religions and indicated he respected and accepted all of them—a sentiment he further emphasized in his poem "With Antecedents", affirming: "I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god, / I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception". [139]
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Currently the fifth link, American Transcendentalism Web Study Text of "Song of Myself", when I click on it I get a 403 forbidden. Does anyone else get this problem. If you do, I suggest that link be removed. 96.237.203.138 17:03, 1 January 2013 (UTC) Fixed. Rivertorch 17:08, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
As the title is, “One’s Self,” not “Myself”, this already forms the bond between the reader and writer which again is what he is conveying in the poem. The final line has the reader caught up in the difference between past heroes and the “modern man” which is just as powerful if one believes that it is so. [citation needed]
Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.