Mark and Seamus turn to Walt Whitman's ‘Song of Myself’, from Leaves of Grass (1855), for Mark ‘one of the most exciting things literature has to offer’. They discuss the extraordinary physicality and ...

In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming the title "Song of Myself") the ... all times & moods of my life, fair ...

Walt Whitman offers ... closely one of the poems in each edition. Divide the class into four groups and assign each group one of these editions and poems: 1855 "Song of Myself"; 1860 "A Word ...

It is in the first line of the very first poem in which he struck the keynote of his defiant chant: "I celebrate myself." Yet the form Whitman ... (Walt was a "fresh-air fiend"), and my own ...