Song Of Myself Section 16

Song of myself section 16.

Song of myself section 16. And of these one and all i weave the song of myself. Old and young foolish and wise mother and father the average people and the elites south and north remember he wrote this just before the civil war you get the point. Section 16 is the contraction of the vast expansion of.

She was referring to his peripatetic ways but her description works as well for the structure of song of myself where the poet expands out into the welter of details around him testing how wide he can expand his sympathetic impulse before the self dissipates and then he contracts back into a firm sense of self expressing confidence that he can contain the multitudes he has absorbed that they in fact strengthen the self. He s the union of opposites. Whitman would like us to believe that he is cobbled together out of all the various kinds of people that he has listed in the previous sections.

All of them can be used to illuminate whitman s thematic concerns which are part and parcel of whitman s.