A Literary Analysis of Song of Myself (1437 words, 6 pages)
James DoughertyThe 1855 "Song of Myself" had announced that the "word of themodern" was "a word en masse," and eventually Whitman would revise this1867 Inscription to affirm that "En-Masse" was also "the wordDemocratic." In a modern, democratic society, as Tocqueville had said, nointermediate allegiances stand between the individual citizen and ...
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