" This poem ends by reassuring its addressee that "I stop somewhere waiting for you."
Michael Moon claims that the speaker of this poem uses the "energy of" a lonely girl's "desires" in order to caress young men who "do not ask who seizes fast to them." This poem ends by reassuring its addressee that "I stop somewhere waiting for you." In this poem, a lonely woman spies on "twenty-eight young men" bathing by the shore. This poem invites the speaker's soul to "loafe" and "[o]bserveÂ… a spear of summer (*) grass" and later compares the grass to "the uncut hair of graves." In this poem, the speaker declares, "I contain multitudes" and sounds his "barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." For 10 points, name this long poem from Leaves of Grass which begins "I celebrate myself, and sing myself," written by Walt Whitman.
Michael Moon claims that the speaker of this poem uses the "energy of" a lonely girl's "desires" in order to caress young men who "do not ask who seizes fast to them.
"Song of Myself" 