I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Questions:
A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.
B.What does the word"you"refer to?
C.What does the poet express in the stanza?
A.From Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself".
B.The democratic "en-masse"of America.
C.The genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural was to behave as a supreme individualist; however, the poet's essential purpose was to identify his ego with the world, and with the democratic "en-masse"of America.
