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A poem from Whitman's epic sequence Leaves of Grass, where he proclaims his identity as a multitude of selves and invites a listener to confide in him. The poem contains the famous line "I contain multitudes" as a response to the question of self-contradiction.
- Song of Myself, V
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Walt Whitman > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”. ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. tags: change.
"I am large, I contain multitudes." (Section 51) Alice L. Cook and John B. Mason offer representative interpretations of the "self" as well as its importance in the poem.
"I Contain Multitudes" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the opening track on his 39th studio album, Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). It was released as the album's second single on April 17, 2020, through Columbia Records .
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
21 maj 2019 · This quotation informs all of his poetry, especially his central work, the long poem “Song of Myself”: “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.” He was a poet of commonalities, truths, contradictions, and the immediate present.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) Perhaps no quotation from “Song of Myself” is more famous than this one, which appears in the middle of section 51 (lines 1323–25). Coming, as these lines do, at the end of the poem, they offer something of a summary of the work as a whole.
