Song of Myself Discussion Forum
Briefly discuss your initial feelings and ideas upon reading
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” What was your favorite line or
section, and why? Here are some other questions to consider as you respond-
choose at least one:
The
first line of poetry in “Song of Myself” reads, “I
celebrate myself.” How exactly does Whitman go about doing this
in this book? How does he celebrate his nation by extension?
How
might ideas and themes in this text be considered “American” or
democratic?
What
kind of interaction does this poem construct between the soul and the
body–between the spiritual and material worlds?
Stanza
6 begins, “A child said, what is the grass?” How does the
poet answer this question? How does grass operate as a symbol in the
poem?
Pay
special attention to any Romantic themes you observe in Whitman’s poem,
and comment on those. Romantic themes can include love, death, the value
of nature, the author as tragic hero, the importance of the self, and
more.
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