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Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” the first poem in ''Leaves of Grass'' (1st Ed. 1855) a work that changed the direction of American poetry. Whitman “celebrated” a first-person poetic voice, creating himself as a kind of bard—or, in the Old English poetic tradition, a ''scop''. The poem opens thus, | Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” the first poem in ''Leaves of Grass'' (1st Ed. 1855) a work that changed the direction of American poetry. Whitman “celebrated” a first-person poetic voice, creating himself as a kind of bard—or, in the Old English poetic tradition, a ''scop''. The poem opens thus, | ||
{{quote|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 | |||
(1st ed. 1855, lines 1– 5) }} | |||
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