Song Of Myself Section 24

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 24. And so even this long song of myself will refuse to yield the. If there s such a thing as the great american poem this is it. For the fourth 1867 edition the poem was divided into 52 numbered sections and in the final edition of 1881 it was given the title song of myself this passage is the first half of section 24.

I loafe and invite my soul i lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Finally he uses the greek word kosmos which we now use to describe outer space cosmos but which more appropriately means the entire world known and unknown. Section 24 ended with the poet beholding the day break discerning the faint libidinous prongs of light that were beginning to penetrate the darkness and bring light and perception once again.

The effect is that this nameless voice this i that has absorbed so much in the first twenty three sections can now take on an actual identity since it has accumulated a sensory past. Song of myself section 24. It is his cry for democracy giving each of us a voice through his poetry.

Who knows at the dawn of every day what the day will bring. Song of myself sections 20 25 lines 389 581 the poet declares that all he says of himself the reader is to say of his own self else it were time lost listening to me he declares himself to be solid and sound deathless and august and while no one is better than he no one is worse either. Now twenty four sections into song of myself whitman finally introduces himself by name.

An annotation of section 24 of walt whitman s song of myself walt whitman s song of myself is a vision of the american spirit a vision of whitman himself. Each of us has a voice and desires and this is whitman s representation of our voices the voice of america. Commentary on section 24 song of myself walt whitman walt whitman a kosmos of manhattan the son turbulent fleshy sensual eating drinking and breeding no sentimentalist no stander above men and women or apart from them.

My tongue every atom of my blood form d from this soil this air born here.