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"Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman (1819–1892) that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision." It has been credited as "representing the core of Whitman's poetic vision."
Tanure Ojaide was born to Urhobo parents from Okpara Inland in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State. He credits his grandmother with having inspired his writing. [3] He attended secondary school at Obinomba and Federal Government College, Warri, before proceeding to the University of Ibadan for his degree program in English.
Jay Parini, who in 2011 ranked the poem second only to Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" among all American poems ever written, interprets it as "[celebrating] the 'blessed rage for order' at the heart of all creative work." [8] The core of the poem lies on the interdependence of imagination and reality.
“One’s Self I Sing” is a poem by Walt Whitman, published in 1867 as the first poem for the final phase of Leaves of Grass.Although the general attitude towards the poem was not favorable, in July 1855 Whitman received the famous letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson in appreciation of his words of strength, freedom, and power, as well as, “meets the demand I am always making of what seemed ...
"I Contain Multitudes" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the opening track on his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). It was released as the album's second single on April 17, 2020, through Columbia Records. [2] [3] The title of the song is taken from Section 51 of the poem "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. [4]
The scholar Jerome Loving deemed "The Sleepers" "the most famous dream in American literature". [10] The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman listed "The Sleepers" as one of Whitman's most famous poems. [11] It goes on to describe the poem as "a particularly distinguished performance" and drew comparisons to "Song of Myself". [12]
Democratic Vistas is a book by the American author Walt Whitman, published in 1871.It is considered an early classic work of comparative politics and letters. Whitman, who was then working as a federal clerk, does much to expound on the influence of the Louisiana Purchase and expansion on the American spirit, character, and body politic (foreshadowing Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis).
--Mrdeadhead 05:21, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Wikisource is the repository for this kind of stuff, sort of the online library of original texts as a sister to Wikipedia itself. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, there's a box linking to the Wikisource version of "Song of Myself" already, along with a couple other external links.