One’s-Self I Sing

Walt Whitman * Track #1 On Leaves of Grass

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Album Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman

1855

One's-Self I Sing by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

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Whitman’s astonishingly great 1855 magnum opus Leaves of Grass is opened by this short but incisive introduction, which lays out the themes and buzzwords for the entirety of the text to follow: one’s self, democracy, and the tension between individuals and the collective; the body and the sensual co...

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One's-self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.

Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say
the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.

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