The speaker of one poem by this author declares: "I perceive that I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
The speaker of one poem by this author declares: "I perceive that I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can." The speaker of that poem by this author declares: "Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother / [] but fear not, deny not me." One of this poet's speakers asks: "Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?" while examining people on auction at a "slave-mart." One poem by him declares: "The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them." Those poems by him were included in sections titled "Sea-Drift" and "Children of Adam." For 10 points, name this American poet who included "As I ebb'd with the ocean of life" and "I Sing the Body Electric" in his collection Leaves of Grass.
The speaker of one poem by this author declares: "I perceive that I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
(Walter) "Walt" Whitman