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    her what journey to follow, one thing is sure her kids' happiness, and safety comes first. {indent}She did not plan to converge, until Amy, her four-year-old exhibited ornery behaviors. Not like her little girl; Gone was the happy girl, they all know and love. In her stead an angry, stubborn girl; why she even fought with her brother Jason, they never argued. Jenna was beside herself with worry, felt a sudden sense of urgency to lay a plan into action. {indent}Response came to her,…

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    Finding Self, Whitman’s Way: The One Among the Crowd “The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day; The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme-myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated, yet part of the scheme” (Whitman. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.). Walt Whitman was a graceful, yet outlaw poet that pushed the boundaries ink and paper. Whitman’s works were a journey of finding self through the natural world and his relation to the world, along with cleaver wording that…

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    In Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, the author is seamlessly stepping into the shoes of another and identifying himself with their experiences, he also observes them. Walt Whitman does not write this poem as a final stroke to his light-hearted, if not an egomaniacal sense of self, but rather as a celebration of all types of individuals. When Whitman uses the word assume, in his second line, he is not asking the reader to automatically hold all of his statements true to himself, but rather assume…

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    when I say that i’m a little less than merry about having to go. The farm just isn’t what it used to be, however, Mother and Father aren’t making the money they used to. So it’s my turn to make my way in the world. I plan to get a job in the city and send what I can back to the farm. It’s my first time on a train and I must admit how terribly nervous I am. Living in the countryside my whole life I’ve never seen such a thing. Hearing about it is not at all the same as seeing it with my own two…

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    The Poet’s Patriotic Orientation in “Song of Myself” BY Reem Abbas 43380421 The forefather of modern American poetry Walt Whitman writes “Song of Myself” in his great production Leaves of Grass. This poem is one the most enjoyable, controversial, and pioneering poem among twelve other poems. Many poets and critics from the day of its publication until now have debated about it. This influential poem makes Emerson greet Whitman in his great…

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    “Song of myself” is one of Walt Whitman 's excellent poetry of The Leaves of Grass. He emphasizes an all-powerful "self". Instead of referring to Walt himself, the self is both individual and universal. He wrote this poem to sing about himself, to express his thoughts about democracy, to set free his human passion, to praise great nationality. In this poem, Walt Whitman presents the speaker that he sees a hawk, and his response is to feel immensely humbled as he sees elements of himself in…

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    ” Tense Walt Whitman uses a combination of past, present and future tense in the poem.”Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or sit at the table at dinner with my mother,” are all examples of the use of future tense in the poem. “To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle” is an example of present tense. An example of past tense in the poem is, Or the dead carried to burial.” Rhythm and Rhyme I…

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    lessons of the universe and how nature and society should coincide together and be one. The poem “Song of Myself” was one of the twelve poems that were unnamed in his first edition that was printed in 1855. The poem was given the name “A Poem of Walt Whitman, an American” in 1856, and later changed to “Walt Whitman” in 1860. Finally 1881, it was named its final name, as of today, “Song of Myself” to show the evolution and significance of the poem. In the poem, he uses the events and things he…

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    During the Poem “Song of Myself” Walt Whitman examines the complex idea of belonging in society by using sly commentary and symbols alike, while writing with a seemingly egotistical style. This piece was one of the twelve poems from the original collection of “Leaves of Grass” published in 1855, which was shortly before the Civil War started. This was a time of despair for Whitman because he was living in a fractured union. During this piece Whitman used many evocative situations to capture the…

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