Title: from Song of Myself, Number 52 by Walt Whitman
1from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
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Introducing the Poem Reading Skills Comparing
Themes Across Texts
2from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
3from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
I am largeI contain multitudes. from Song of
Myself, Number 14 by Walt Whitman
4from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
In Song of Myself, Whitman describes a broad
panorama of American experience. In this final
section, Whitman
- reveals the mind and spirit of the speaker
- proclaims his importance and inescapability
- says farewell to the reader
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5from Song of Myself, Number 52Reading Skills
Comparing Themes Across Texts
The final section of Song of Myself is a codaa
summing up and restatement of the themes of the
entire poem.
Poem 1
Theme 1
- Write down your observations of how particular
lines and phrases echo themes youve encountered
in other Whitman poems.
Poem 2
Theme 2
Poem 3
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6from Song of Myself, Number 52 Meet the Writer
Walt Whitman (18191892) was as unique and
forthright as the young nation that produced him.
He presented himself as a bundle of
contradictions showman and saint, artist and
hobo, braggart and shy wallflower. Yet this
carefully crafted image was a true reflection of
the man himself.
More About the Writer
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