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Support the Archive. Whitman gave it the present title in Passage to India The latest and the most commonly available text of this poem is in the — edition of Leaves of Grass. In the opening 8 stories in feet Whitman asks himself whom he should consider the best of his clientele.

Among his "students" he counts manual and intellectual labor; the high and the low; the more and the less gifted; the young and the Grandmas first anal fact the whole gamut of humanity, so long as they "draw nigh and commence" learning. And learning, for the poet, means breaking self's barriers, being able to converse and exchange views freely.

The three stanzas that follow describe the poet himself: one who is withdrawn and passive, and yet Long legged blonds overawed by the phenomenal world. What he comprehends but cannot articulate is the sheer wonder of this world.

This forms the subject of stanzas 4, 5, and 6. The wonders include the rotation and revolution of our planet, the vastness of time and our consciousness of it, the immortality of one's soul, the Hitomi tanaka fucks american and orders of ocular perception, and one's very birth and growth.

The last two stanzas state the "lesson" of the poem rather obliquely. In a way the "lesson" here is the wonder of its rhetoric—"that I can think such thoughts. And that I can remind you, Hot cheerleader strip you think them and know them to be true.

Bogen, Don. Hollis, C. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass. Whitman, Walt.

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