Song of Ourselves
Song of Ourselves In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don't. He…
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Song of Ourselves
In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don't. He finds in the poem the genesis and development of a democratic spirit, for the individual and the nation. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of Myself.Esteemed cultural and literary thinker Mark Edmundson offers a bold reading of the 1855 poem, included here in its entirety.
He wanted instead to celebrate the common and everyday. Whitman broke from past literature that he saw as "feudal" obsessed with the noble and great. Song of Myself does this, setting the terms for democratic identity and culture in America.
The work captures the drama of becoming an egalitarian individual, as the poet ascends to knowledge and happiness by confronting and
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