413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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The Smallest the Same and the Largest the Same.
He goes through these transformations, on this perpetual journey. That's his metaphor. Or the man being asked questions by a child, he becomes a homeless beggar. All this is this poem, song of myself. In his phrase, and it's all part of being an american,. as the stream of people who have been here and are here in their own fashion.
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