 | Walt Whitman - Poetry - 2003 - 255 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Walt Whitman - Poetry - 2003 - 612 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American poetry - 2005 - 228 pages
...grotesque than gigantic. He describes himself well enough in the lines, I am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable — I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.6 Mr. Whitman's religion is no doubt to him a serious matter, and it is a somewhat serious matter... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 303 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, v It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
 | Art and literature - 2006 - 292 pages
...(LG 49). "I know perfectly well my own egotism" (LG 77), he advises. "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (LG 89). Commensurate with Whitman's refusal to be contained between his hat and his boots was his... | |
 | D. J. Moores - Mysticism in literature - 2006 - 260 pages
...a more appropriate outlet for the expression of the inexpressible: 'I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world' ('Song of Myself 1332-1333). Unlike Wordsworth, Whitman (or at least one of the personae in his poetry)... | |
 | George B. Handley - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 457 pages
...that remains beyond his grasp. This provides a new ecological dimension to his famous claim: "I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" (PW 96). Liebig's law of regeneration is an early manifestation of ecological thinking that questions... | |
 | Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, Kenneth M. Price - Literary Collections - 2007 - 504 pages
...raison d'etre in "Song of Myself is to allow Whitman to declare: I too am not a bit tamed .... I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. To translate the untranslatable: I, too, am as untamed as a wild bird or savage; I, too, am as untranslatable... | |
 | Gayle Brandeis - Fiction - 2008 - 306 pages
...swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the... | |
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The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. 
