Ending with the line "I stop somewhere waiting for you," FTP, name this poem divided into 52 sections in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, the masterpiece of Walt Whitman.
Its thirty-fourth section describes the massacre at Goliad, and another section labels gods like Zeus, Odin, and Mexitli "the old cautious hucksters." The narrator calls a Corpse "good manure" that does not offend him and tells Death "it is idle to / try to alarm me." That narrator also asks how he extracts strength from the beef he eats, and calls grass "the beautiful uncut hair of graves." In its final section, the speaker departs "as air" after sounding "his barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." Ending with the line "I stop somewhere waiting for you," FTP, name this poem divided into 52 sections in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, the masterpiece of Walt Whitman.
Its thirty-fourth section describes the massacre at Goliad, and another section labels gods like Zeus, Odin, and Mexitli "the old cautious hucksters.
“{Song of Myself}”