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summary of the poem leaves of grass by walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass Summary

Leaves of Grass collects dozens of poems that Whitman continuously revised over the last years of his life. As a whole, they explores themes of love, nature, spiritualism, and the soul, declaring that the body is one and the same as the soul.

Perhaps the best known poem in Leaves of Grass is "Song of Myself," a long (and often sexual) poem about the body and soul. The "Myself" referred to in the poem stands both for the individual self and all of humanity.Many shorter poems touch on the same themes as "Song of Myself," expanding on what Whitman argues throughout the work. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" was written just after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as an elegy.