Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez,Ĭhattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco, / Wabash, Names of places and their spirits: "Okonee, Of "Starting from Paumanok," Whitman focuses Whitman's persona gives birth to himself as aĬome into being because the name is the soul of Self-love is the conception of the human race. Into the concept of himself and the result of his Suggested that Adam integrates the idea of Eve He creates an image of America in all itsĭiversity, promise, and confusion. Patient spider launch'd forth filament,įilament, filament, out of itself," the New Adam Narcissism is an important stage of the growth One thing more than another," he proclaims, Holy whatever he touches ("Song of Myself,"Ī namer. Gross, mystical, nude," this new Adam makes Like "Adam early in the morning, / Walkingįorth from the bower refresh'd with sleep" ("AsĪdam Early in the Morning"). Whitman's natural unfallen man is truly awake, Man comes unfolded" emphasize his newness. "Unfolded out of the folds of the woman, the Like "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" and Of the Adamic type: an individual undefiledīy inheritance, an innocent. World announces a "new race, dominating previous Poetic self in the central procession, developingīoth his mythic and personal portrait. Two sections of the poem, Whitman places the West, I strike up for a New World." In the first Of the solitary singer: "Solitary, singing in the The poet's origins with the creation of the world Place name emphasizes America's beginningsĪnd symbolically associates America's and Self start from Paumanok the Native American In the opening lines of "Starting from Paumanok," Only recourse is to create a world of splendor Companionless, he finds himself in anĪdamic condition, in a "vacant, vast surrounding" To reestablish the Adamic man of the Western Leaves of Grass dramatizes Whitman's attempt Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), reproduced by permission.
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