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Title: from Song of Myself, Number 52 by Walt Whitman


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from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
Feature Menu
Introducing the Poem Reading Skills Comparing
Themes Across Texts
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from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
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from Song of Myself, Number 52by Walt Whitman
I am largeI contain multitudes. from Song of
Myself, Number 14 by Walt Whitman
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from 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
  • mocks his own egotism
  • proclaims his importance and inescapability
  • says farewell to the reader

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from 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
  • Read the poem twice.

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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from 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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