In the 37th section of this poem, the poet connects himself to mutineers and cholera patients before stating, "I pro- ject my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg." The 52nd and final section refers to a "barbaric yawp" and states that the writer can be found "under your boot-soles." The first section in the original version states that the poet is thirty-seven years old, but the title this work is best-known by was not used until 1881, when the poet wa
In the 37th section of this poem, the poet connects himself to mutineers and cholera patients before stating, "I pro- ject my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg." The 52nd and final section refers to a "barbaric yawp" and states that the writer can be found "under your boot-soles." The first section in the original version states that the poet is thirty-seven years old, but the title this work is best-known by was not used until 1881, when the poet was sixty-two. Much of this poem can be viewed as an attempt to answer a child's question that gets asked in its 6th Section: "What is the grass?" Name this work containing the line, "I am large, I contain multitudes," originally titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an Ameri- can".
In the 37th section of this poem, the poet connects himself to mutineers and cholera patients before stating, "I pro- ject my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg."
“{Song} of {Myself}” [accept “{Poem} of {Walt Whitman}, an {American}” before “{Walt}”]