It is an excellent work, because never before in the history of American Literature, and never after Whitman had anyone addressed social and political issues from the intimacy of the individual self. Walt sings

The greatness of this work is beyond compare, and although my arguments might not be convincing enough, history itself has taken on its duty to prove my assumption. Walt Whitman's work corresponds with a period of both national and personal crisis. America was revolving in dreams of liberty and patriotism while Walt tried to break through sexual and personal barriers. His own concealed homosexuality brings strands of color and variety, and provides enough material to compare and contrast his internal life versus the life of millions of Americans.

without abiding by any conventions. His own free verse technique serves as a democratizing device, inscribing through the poem the pattern of many and one. The e pluribus unum that was the revolutionary seal of the American republic is also the overarching figure of Song of Myself. It is incredibly amazing how almost at the end of the poem, in section 38 when Whitman says "I find myself on the verge of a usual mistake", the context throws us back to the end of section three where the poet begins identifyin

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