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In 1855, the Christian Spiritualist gave a long, glowing review of "Song of Myself", praising Whitman for representing "a new poetic mediumship," which through active imagination sensed the "influx of spirit and the divine breath." [6] Ralph Waldo Emerson also wrote a letter to Whitman, praising his work for its "wit and wisdom". [1]
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 the dream, they travel to various places, visiting people as they are asleep.
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 ...
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]
Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Song of Songs 6 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 6) is the sixth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
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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)