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Answer the questions below for the two excerpts you will read from Song of Myself:
Part 1 (Introduction)
What kinds of connections does the speaker imagine in the following pairings: Between “me” and “you”? Between himself and history? Between himself and nature?
What is the tone of the poem? In other words, what emotion is the speaker feeling and conveying in this section? What evidence from the text supports your answer?
Part 52 (Conclusion)
Re-read lines 1–3. What is the speaker comparing himself to?
- Where does the speaker tell us to look for him (lines 9–10)?
- This last part of the poem serves as a coda or summing up of the themes Whitman has made throughout the poem. What central theme can be found in these lines?
(MO8a, MO8c)
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Analysis of Song of Myself
Part 1
1. The speaker tries to show that he is related to other people via their place of origin. Therefore, this
makes him positively associated with other people as they can assume what he assumes. The speaker has
a positive connection with history as he reveals that his parents and grandparents were associated with the
area where he resides. He shows that while they are gone, they are not forgotten. This means that he has
fond memories of his history. He also appreciates nature because his blood and tongue were developed
from air and oil. Therefore, he feels ...
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