413 Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
The History of Literature
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I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
There are 52 sections in the poem, one for each week of the year. The speaker leaves the creeds andt chools behind. He heads out to the woods to become undisguised and naked. Guess what happens next? The poet's soul arrives and fastens itself to the poet's body.
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