 | D. H. Lawrence - 2004 - 476 pages
...associated with them. 313:20 en masse Cf. Whitman, 'OneVSelf I Sing', in Leaves of Grass (1855): 'One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse -'. 314:17 one flesh. The words connect with a persistent theme in DHL's writings, deriving ultimately... | |
 | Margaret Atwood - 2005 - 440 pages
...ought. He sees his species, not with the inhuman eye of a natural enemy, but as a kindred. "One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse," says Whitman . . . One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same.... | |
 | Jonah Raskin - 2004 - 334 pages
...leaders like General Douglas MacArthur. At the start oí Leaves of Grass, Whitman wrote, "One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, / Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." Allen Ginsberg sang of himself, but for the most part he did not consistently "utter the word Democratic."... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 pages
...conformism — by frankly and exuberantly incorporating both positions in his large nature: "One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, /Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." Or he could try to solve the problem by asserting instead of proving, attempting through brag — a... | |
 | Didier Eribon - 2004 - 478 pages
...Grass sent a new wind blowing over an entire generation of intellectuals. Whitman declares: One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.18 A bit further on, he announces that he will "sing the song of companionship" and then goes... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 pages
...the original edition, this poem eventually came to open later editions of Leaves of Grass. One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word...toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worth for the muse, I Say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing.... | |
 | Anne Norton - 2005 - 262 pages
...a single citizen. The United States made that recognition live; Whitman made it poetry. One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Democracy, in Whitman's American view, was a state of profound uniformity, in the strict sense. The... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...manifesto of belief. How lighthearted Whitman's initial statement of a double faith seems to be. One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. One might think that there ought to be a greater distance between those two lines. To propose contradictory... | |
 | 248 pages
...heart of Whitman's poetic enterprise: it is adumbrated in the first of the Inscriptions : One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.25 How is the paradox or contradiction resolved? We have already discussed the protean sensuality... | |
 | David S. Reynolds - 2005 - 176 pages
...1867 Leaves of Grass and all later editions with a poem that in its final version began: One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.25 Seeking metaphors for the right balance became almost an obsession in his later years,... | |
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One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing: Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse; I say the Form complete is worthier far. The Female equally... 
