Song Of Myself Section 1

Walt whitman 1819 1892 i celebrate myself and sing myself and what i assume you shall assume for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Song of myself section 1. Sections 1 5 lines 1 98. Song of myself section 1. This practice might seem a little arrogant but we ll just go with it.

In doing so he will not just be celebrating himself but the whole of humanity. As he is an intrinsic. In section 1 of the poem song of myself whitman means that he is going to celebrate himself.

The poet will sing myself but what i assume you shall assume for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you the poet loafs on the grass and invites his soul to appear. Song of myself section 1 by walt whitman. I celebrate myself and sing myself and what i assume you shall assume for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

We re going to believe assume whatever he believes. The very beginning of the poem is characterized by what whitman himself called the vehemence of pride and audacity of freedom necessary to loosen the mind of still to be formed america from the folds the superstitions and all the long tenacious and stifling anti democratic authorities of asiatic and european past. Afterword to section 1 afterword it is said that a poem is an act of attention to someone something some experience or portion of existence grasped imagined or remembered and in the first section of song of myself whitman offers an image of the poet attending to the world loafing marvelous word leaning opening his soul up to the world.

I loafe and invite my soul i lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass section 1. This poem celebrates the poet s self but while the i is the poet himself it is at the same time universalized. 1 i celebrate myself and sing myself and what i assume you shall assume for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.