Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

Song of myself

luca

baelgia

alt. title: walt whitman's guide to loving life
alt. alt. title: the acid poem

Sofia Blomqvist Rytters

Анастасия Розова

Okay, so, I'm conflicted. When I started to read this poem, I was like "What is this stream of consciousness? What am I even reading? This doesn't make any sense". 

But then I kept reading and I ended up rather interested, if not full on enjoying. This poem had some ideas that are very close to me, but it also had that nonsense in the beginning.

Anyway, I'm glad I didn't just give up and actually finished the whole thing, cause from WTF I managed to move on to "okay, that was curious". That happens rarely to me.

Jana Pashovska

A celebration of the self like no other. A shame I had to read it for class, because that somewhat lessened my enjoyment and first impressions, but it is nevertheless a monumental piece of American Literature.

Peanne

Deepika Ramesh

makenna!!! 

Cat Josephson

coriander

Jordan Peet

Jacqueline Jordan 

Caitlin Bohannon

To mark 160 years since its first publication, a new edition of the great American poet's most famous work Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Abundant, ecstatic, generous, courageous--this is the first American epic poem, a celebration of selfhood and a catalogue of 19th-century American life of all ages and races. Revolutionary in style and controversial in content when it was first published in 1855, Whitman's masterwork has since inspired generations with its intoxicating rhythms and images, and its inclusive, praiseful joy.

Song of Myself

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