[DOC] [TLE] Section 52, Song of Myself - The University of Iowa [PAR] As we might expect, he pulls off one of the great disappearing acts in all of ... 
eddies, the jags, the dirt, the grass, and finally the you that the poem leaves us 
with. ... leaving behind this poem, with its curled and jagged letters forming words
, ... In almost all copies of the first edition of Song of Myself (1855), the period at 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Song of Myself - Shmoop [PAR] "Song of Myself" might be the most egotistical poem ever written: it's all about me, 
... First published in 1855, without a title, as part of his collection Leaves of ... He 
famously wrote Whitman a letter that began, "I greet you at the beginning of a... [DOC] [TLE] SONG OF MYSELF. ( Leaves of Grass (1891-92)) - The Walt ... [PAR] Published WorksIn Whitman's HandLife & LettersCommentaryResourcesPictures 
& SoundAbout the Archive ... SONG OF MYSELF. 1. I CELEBRATE ... Have you 
felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? ..... Adorning myself to bestow 
myself on the first that will take me, .... I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you. 
20. [DOC] [TLE] Song of Myself - The Walt Whitman Archive [PAR] [Song of myself]. Walt Whitman's "song of myself": a mosaic of ... The embossed, 
gayly decorated letters of the title seem almost to dance across the green ... The 
author is not named until about the middle of the first poem, on page ... is his 
pleasure to elude you and provoke you for deliberate purposes of his own." At the 
end... [DOC] [TLE] On Illustrating Walt Whitman's "Song Of Myself" | Huffington Post [PAR] Mar 24, 2014 ... To hold, feel, and study Whitman's books and letters first-hand ... epic poem, 
Song of Myself, which is the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass. ... My hope is that 
you will never quite know what to expect when you turn the page. ... It's my hope 
that readers of this book might also find a little of him under my pen. [DOC] [TLE] Song of Myself - Wikipedia [PAR] "Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of 
Grass. ... The first edition was published by Whitman at his own expense. ... 
Ralph Waldo Emerson also wrote a letter to Whitman, praising his work for its "wit 
... I say of myself I say of them" (Section 20); "It is you talking just as much as 
myself. [DOC] [TLE] from Preface to Leaves of Grass, first edition - Poetry Foundation [PAR] On the 4th of July in 1855, Whitman self-published his first edition of Leaves of 
Grass, a volume ... it by connecting lyric poems; the long, narrative lines in Song 
of Myself are ... without Emerson's permission, and a long letter by Whitman 
himself. ..... This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, 
despise... [DOC] [TLE] The Erotic Whitman - UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 [PAR] In an extended self-introduction in the 1855 poem Song of Myself, Whitman 
issued a ... Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you? ..... 
Contrary to what we might expect, there is no enmity between them. ... In the 
1856 letter to Emerson and in the first two editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman 
begins... [DOC] [TLE] PART 3 A Poetic Revolution Image alt text: girl The Girl I Left Behind ... [PAR] Walt Whitman, Song of Myself ... He was the first poet in English to write 
extensively in free verse, an open, unregulated form that ... In a letter to Whitman, 
Emerson said the collection was the most extraordinary .... A Poetic Revolution 
How is this description different from what you might read in poems from an 
earlier era? [DOC] [TLE] Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No

Question: As you might expect, this is the first letter in the poem "Song of Myself"
Answer: I