A contemporaneous parody of this poem, titled "The Counter-Jumper," was published in Vanity Fair. Pa
A contemporaneous parody of this poem, titled "The Counter-Jumper," was published in Vanity Fair. Paul Ebenkamp and Robert Hass included a lexicon of every word that appears in this poem in a 2010 anthology that they co-edited. In this poem, the "ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip" arrives at the site of a "fan-shaped explosion." The speaker of this poem says "Continue your annotations, continue your questionings" to conclude a section in which requests a breather by yelling (*) "Enough! Enough! Enough!" This poem's speaker says, "you splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room," to a woman who joins several men and becomes the "twenty-ninth bather." The speaker of this poem realizes that "now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves" in pondering a child's inquiry "What is the grass?" This poem's speaker asks "Do I contradict myself?," admits "Very well then I contradict myself," and explains "(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" For 10 points, name this long poem that begins "I celebrate myself, and sing myself," and takes up most of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
A contemporaneous parody of this poem, titled "The Counter-Jumper," was published in Vanity Fair.