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Song of Myself

Walt Whitman

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1855
Pages
Pages 50

A poet lounges in the grass and sings himself, and the self keeps widening until it contains crowds, occupations, atoms, the dead and the reader too.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

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