The speaker of this poem asks "was it doubted ... if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead." Huck Gutman argues that this poem's reference to "The same old blood! / The same red-running blood!" in its seventh and eighth sections is part of its de
The speaker of this poem asks "was it doubted ... if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead." Huck Gutman argues that this poem's reference to "The same old blood! / The same red-running blood!" in its seventh and eighth sections is part of its democratic sub-theme, while Paul Zweig asserts that the "common farmer" with five sons the speaker professes to know in the third section of this work is not the poet's father but the poet himself. Its literal climax comes in the line "Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb," and it begins "The bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them." For 10 points, name this "Poem of the Body" by Walt Whitman.
The speaker of this poem asks "was it doubted ... if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead."
"I Sing the Body Electric" [or "Poem of the Body" before mentioned]