![]() ![]() As such, “Song of Myself” stands as an immense labyrinthine construction that culminates in an all-embracing vision of the self. ![]() ![]() Throughout the years Walt Whitman would continue to expand, reorganize and edit Leaves of Grass, yet throughout the decades and many revisions, “Song of Myself” would remain a locus to Whitman’s thought and oeuvre. “Go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young…” Walt Whitman commands his readers to do in the introduction to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass “re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book” he continues, “and dismiss whatever insults your own soul….” Filled with the enthusiasm of a young man who has witnessed his young nation expand from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which grows out of what would become “ Song of Myself”, is a tempest of words and images that carry the reader through a journey across town and country, bedroom and public lot. ![]()
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