 | 1855 - 560 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 602 pagine
...his title page, figures on his frontispiece, and unmistakeably utters his own poem : " I celebrate myself, And what I assume, you shall assume ; For...at my ease — Observing a spear of Summer grass." Such is the starting point of this most eccentric and republican of poets ; of whom the republican... | |
 | 1881 - 1008 pagine
...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...ease • • • observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
 | 1919 - 714 pagine
...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... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pagine
...me. SONG OF MYSELF. II CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, \ I And what I assume you shall assume, j V For. every atom belonging to me as good belongs to...of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 270 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 pagine
...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 556 pagine
...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...my ease . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he simply took Alcott and Emerson at their word. His radical demonstration, extended in later years... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - 388 pagine
...clause is really too fetchingly poetic. One sample more : — I celebrate myself. And what I shall assume You shall assume ; For every atom belonging to me. as good belongs to you. Oh, to level occupations and the sexes ! (), to bring all t<> common ground ! O, adhesiveness ! (),... | |
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I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. 
