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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.
- I contain multitudes
options. I contain multitudes. prev. Song of Myself, 51....
- I contain multitudes
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?
"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.
options. I contain multitudes. prev. Song of Myself, 51. Walt Whitman. 1819 –. 1892. The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
21 maj 2019 · “I contain multitudes.” This recent Manual Cinema video commemorates Walt Whitman’s bicentenary. BY The Editors. Originally Published: May 21, 2019. Share. Still image from "Multitudes". It’s difficult to overstate the impact that Walt Whitman has had on American poetry.
/ Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” Whitman is recasting one of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s central ideas: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. . . .
“I am large, I contain multitudes,” Whitman wrote. And we hope that the WhitmanWeb will inspire a multitude of new responses to, and ideas about, this crucial poem. A word about the format.
