A poem in this collection compares how the title p
A poem in this collection compares how the title profession treats people as an aggregate of kings to how the narrator treats them, as he himself is in his own rights, "To a Historian." Although this book originally began with 12 poems, in its noted "Death Bed" edition, it had grown to nearly four hundred. In a more famous poem in this collection, a child asks the narrator "What is" the title object, to which the narrator replies, among other things, "It is a uniform hieroglyphic" and "It is the handkerchief of the lord." Another poem asks "If the body were not the soul, what is the soul?" For ten points, identify this collection, which contains "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", "I Sing the Body Electric", and "Song of Myself", a work of Walt Whitman.
A poem in this collection compares how the title profession treats people as an aggregate of kings to how the narrator treats them, as he himself is in his own rights, "To a Historian."
{Leaves of Grass}