Question

Read the excerpt from “Song of Myself” and answer the question.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself . . .
What element of style is this an example of?

Answer 1

It is a verse free style exhibited by the poet.

Explanation:

• Walt Whitman wrote this exceptional poem named Song of Myself.
• It was originally published in 1892.
• It has been loved worldwide.
• It is a lengthy poem having 52 stanzas where the poet elaborates on human nature and its love for its surroundings.
• He described human qualities in a very modern manner.

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Answer 2

In Song of Myself by Walt Whitman celebrates the self. The poet speaks not pnly for himself but for all mankind, praising the wonder and joy of experiencing nature.

Explanation:

• The particular style of writing in this line is known as free verse (an open form of poetry, free from limitations of rhythm/regular meter, and does not rhyme with fixed forms). In this line Whitman  uses repetition of words at the beginning of lines, called "anaphora. "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself"
• When Whitman writes, "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, he is embraces something which is typically thought of as a shortcoming or something which makes an individual seemingly unreliable
• He makes the act of contradicting oneself something positive; a person who contradicts himself is a person that, in Whitman's mind, needs much to discover about him, to add something about himself to the universe.
• It's like the individual never contradicts himself considered life deeply enough or leads a too-simple interior life