Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Help on walt whitman "song for myself"?

To begin with at least get the title right. Try going back to read it again, if even only for a first time. Who told you it rhymed or had to? Whitman was a poet of the common man. There is internal rhyme and alliteration. The diction is confrontational and conversational. Whitman had been through the Civil War, and seen what it did to his fellow man. He loved other men, and therein lay his faith. Welcome to free verse, without metre or rhyme scheme.

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