![]() ![]() As Ted Genoways put it in his essay “Inventing Walt Whitman,” “… we see the earliest example of that most American trick: self-invention. He finds freedom in being himself, and knowing that he is human. The feeling of being one with mankind is liberating for him.Īdditionally, Whitman finds freedom in himself. However, it seems as though Whitman finds freedom in this feeling instead of feeling trapped by it. Whitman is mortal, and he wonders when death will approach. He is the same as all people, and he is all people. He is not contained by himself and his body. ![]() “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots / … I am not an Earth nor an adjunct of an earth, / I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself … ” Walt Whitman explains that he is one with the dying, as well as with newly born infants. Whitman feels he is connected to all people. ![]() In “Song of Myself,” the narrator himself and human kind are huge aspects. However, Walt didn’t solely discuss these things. ![]() Walt Whitman was known for being quite frank in his discussions of sex and bodily functions which, during his time, was quite revolutionary. ![]()
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