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A 3 page essay that offers an explication of Whitman's masterpieces, offering an interpretation of what the poet is trying to say in sections 7-14. In Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, this American poet by delineating his own identity, associates himself and affirms his connection with the entirety of the race and with life itself. The web that Whitman weaves not only encompasses the entirety of human as his brothers and sisters of the spirit, but reaches out to affirm his connection to the universe. Section 7 of this masterpiece begins with a reference to the ending lines of the previous section, which reads: "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses/And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier" (line 129-130). No additional sources cited.
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with life itself. The web that Whitman weaves not only encompasses the entirety of human as his brothers and sisters of the spirit, but reaches out to affirm his connection
to the universe. Section 7 of this masterpiece begins with a reference to the ending lines of the previous section, which reads: "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses/And to
die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier" (line 129-130). Section 7 extrapolates on this thought, with Whitman beginning by asking "Has anyone supposed it lucky to
be born?" and affirming "I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it" (lines 131-132). This seems counter-intuitive to many minds,
but Whitman makes it clear that he does not see birth and death as being concrete termination points, but insists that there is more to him--and by implication to all
of humanity-- than can be contained between these two points, "between my hat and boots" (line 133). He sees all of humanity as immortal and as complex and "fathomless" as
himself. With mystic vision, Whitman affirms that we are all more than we seem and that life cannot be contained between the limited expanse defined by birth and death. He
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and everything is good. This thought is
explored further in section 8 through 10 as Whitman plunges into a dizzying array of descriptions of types of people, objects and animals, as well as occupations and places. This
suggests not only the infinite variety of lived experience, but it also carries with it the implication that all these things, all these people, everything, is not only an emphatic
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