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TL;DR: The prevailing conception of Whitman is that he celebrated absolute union between the self and others: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,1 For those who see him this way, the message that all men are one by virtue of the unity of Being served both as inspiration for his first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and as his triumphant valediction at the onset of old age.
Abstract: The prevailing conception of Whitman is that he celebrates absolute com- munion between the self and others: I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,1 For those who see him this way, the message that all men are one by virtue of the unity of Being served both as inspiration for his first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) and as his triumphant valediction at the onset of old age. The ecstatic lyricism of "Song of Myself" (1855) and "Passage to India" (1871) controls their estimation of his career.
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