...Hopkins took from alliterating hemistiches. From a famously self-centred and expressive beginning in 'Song of Myself ("I celebrate myself, and sing myself, [/] And what I assume you shall assume", N1060) to the foundation of a distinctly American poetics in 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' ("Ah, what can...

...the role of the other, is clearly focused on the self: /celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what / assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 127 In this comparison, Whitman's is clearly more concerned with an evenness of treatment in "Crossing...

...role of the other, is clearly focused on the self: / celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what / assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs loyou.127 In this comparison, Whitman's is clearly more concerned with an evenness of treatment in...

.... Whitman opens the poem by introducing himself with the line, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself .../For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you" (I, 1-3). In the fourth line he says, "I loafe and invite my soul...". After a catalogue of meetings, historical...

...erste, 1855 erschienene Ausgabe eröffnet mit dem monumentalen, 50 Seiten langen Gedicht Song of Mjself. »I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you« (Whitman 1983: 22). Freiheit liegt für Whitman somit vor allem in der Kultivierung und im Ausdruck...

...'the word Democratic, the word En-masse' ('Ones-Self I Sing' 1-2). 'Song of Myself similarly opens: 'I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you' (1-3). As is the case with Wordsworth's verse, then, Whitman's contains both individualist and self-transcending...

...3) Who is Ahab? 4) What is Pequod? 5) What is the theme of the novel? '. Reading comprehension. 1. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. " Comprehension : Who wrote these lines? What is the poet celebrating? 2. "Standing on the bare ground—my...

...the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. ~ Baha'u'1lah, 1817-1892I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume,...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. ~ Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 ~ "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass, 1855 No one can be perfectly free till...

...madness. Almost too late, I recall that he has demanded a response from me and I struggle to find one. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume...shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good as belongs to you." As Abalone had, Head Wolf stares at me. Then he smiles and gracious lips curve...

...rack and read from the 1855 edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. From the first words, "I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you," Dana was pulled into the author's world. He became fused with the natural splendor of Nature and the...