For 10 points, name this American poet, who included poems like "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and "Song of Myself" in the collection Leaves of Grass.
In one poem, this man compares the title animal to his "surrounded, detached" soul as "It launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself." This man wrote "I know I am solid and sound," "I know I am deathless," and "I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul," in another poem, which also includes the line "I loafe and invite my soul." In that longer work, this man penned such lines as "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." For 10 points, name this American poet, who included poems like "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and "Song of Myself" in the collection Leaves of Grass.
In one poem, this man compares the title animal to his "surrounded, detached" soul as "It launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself.
Walt Whitman [Accept Walter] &lt;SJW&gt;