Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself" Thesis

Furthermore however, he also understands them. He for instance sympathizes with everything and everyone from older times through today's times. He understands the joys and sorrows of all living things, from a simple leaf to a complex human being. And even in terms of human beings, he understands their complexities. He for instance sympathizes with a stay-at-home woman or with a priest. He also understands the cyclic character of life. At the end of the section, the general dies, but this does not cause the end of the battle, just its continuation under different circumstances, with the necessity to move on and adjust to new situations.

Q6 / S35 and 36: Both sections 35 and 36 tell the story of the marine encounter between Richard Bonhomme and the English Serapis, from the angle of the winner -- the Americans. The 35th section is focused on the actual battle, whereas the 36th section is set as the battle was won, but the winners were placed in the life-threatening situation in which their boat was sinking and had to quickly move to the Serapis.Q7 / S52: Song of Myself is described by the author himself as a "barbaric yawp," and this statement was reached after a comparison between Whitman's poem and the poems of previous authors. The explanation could be that previous poems were written in a positive, or the most, a melancholic state, whereas Whitman's poem is written in an aggressive style, clearly manifesting rage. The very last line of the poem comes not to offer closure and end the poem, but to state his own lack of conviction as to how and where he should be. So like his writings, he is complex, he is everything, he is nothing. And this is why he praises and sings about himself.

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