ONE'S-SELF I sing—a simple, separate Person;
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.
Of Physiology from top to toe I sing;
Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse—I say
the Form complete is worthier far;
The Female equally with the male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful—for freest action form'd, under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
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women weren't equal politically back in Walt's day. He's talking about the democracy of the muse, how a muse knows no gender, I think, and how the poet's voice is not limited by his own.
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I found this one to be ironic, in the sense that Whitman knows that he is in fact an individual, but knows he is part of a group; the masses. His rights are equal to those held by women. I think this is just a simple, obvious politcal statement. Whitman would've made a great president.
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