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This 5 page report discusses one of Whitman's best known works, 'Song of Myself' and its un-self-conscious celebration of the experience being an American. Most of Whitman's poetry illustrates what can be accurately and appropriately described as of a 'shared identity' but 'Song of Myself' is the most lyrical in terms of the connection between humanity, God, and country. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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not all that well-received by the average American of his time. Whitman constantly asserts what he believes to be a pattern of life, death, and rebirth in the universe.
Death holds no terror for him, because he believes that it leads only to rebirth as part of an unending cycle. Such an attitude allows Whitman to honor the
common man. He sees him as a noble part of humanity; and he finds no one, regardless of occupation or condition, unworthy of being saluted in his poetry. As
far as Whitman was concerned, all people, but more specifically, all Americans share a commonality of thought, emotion, and intuitiveness. Americans, he would argue, share even more connection to one
another, as well as their unique definition of self through being Americans. In general, stream-of-consciousness writing is a style that allows for long
apparently disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. In the passionately, vibrantly alive experience of Song of Myself,
a stream of consciousness rendering is quite obvious. Throughout the work, Whitman expresses his assumptions of universal connections and experiences that allow one individual to glory in being American and
feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accurately and appropriately described
as of a "shared identity." Song of Myself begins in a tone of boastful authority that seems to point a finger and turn the listeners complacent attention directly toward the
poet: "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume, / For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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