...Walt Whitman at first proceeds to put his own body and soul into the new versification: "I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you." He leaves houses and their shuttered rooms, for the open air. He drops disguise and ceremony, and walks...

...his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe, and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such...

...own personal environment; (2) the ego that sees with himself innumerable counterpart identities, " I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume...For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to yon ;" and (3) in all personality the egotism which is a part of God, the transcendental ego, where...

...sang the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. " I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass,"...

...turned to beautiful results." Of the joy of leisure and the contemplation it gives time for, he writes: "I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." On suffering he gives us a thought that approaches sublimity : "Agonies are one of my changes of garments."...

...explains it. The poem is nominally upon himself, but really includes everybody. It begins : ' I celebrate myself. And what I assume, you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.1 In a word, Walt Whitman represents the kosmical man — he is the ADAMUS of\ the Nineteenth century...

...various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus :— I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer...

...various passages. But the broad development is obvious. "Walt Whitman " begins thus : — I celebrate myself; And what I assume you shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me, as good as belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer...

...the blare and brawn that he found in the streets about him. In his opening lines: — " I celebrate myself ; And what I assume you shall assume ; For...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "I loafe and invite my soul ; I lean and loafe at my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he...

...this celebration of himself is not exclusive, as of a unit merely, but one embracing the race — " I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume...every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,...