This poem famously concludes with a catalog of the narrator's body parts, and exclaims that they are not the parts and poems of the title object, but of the soul.
This poem is the third entry in the "Children of Adam" series. This poem describes a swimmer seen through "transparent green-shine" who "bends to and fro with the water", and who is naked. The narrator of this poem expresses his love for "the bent head, the curv'd neck, and the counting" and his joy, which he "swims in" at the presence of other people. Another section of this poem describes a father of five sons who was over eighty and who all loved with personal love. The narrator also notes that you would want to sit in a boat with him, that you and he might touch each other. This poem famously concludes with a catalog of the narrator's body parts, and exclaims that they are not the parts and poems of the title object, but of the soul. For ten points, identify this celebration of the human form, a poem by Walt Whitman.
This poem is the third entry in the "Children of Adam" series.
“{I Sing the Body Electric}”