Walt Whitman: Poems
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Who is the speaker (persona) in the poem? How would you describe this persona?
Who is the speaker (persona) in the poem? How would you describe this persona?
Whitman begins this poem by naming its subject – himself. He says that he celebrates himself and that all parts of him are also parts of the reader. He is thirty-seven years old and “in perfect health” and begins his journey “Hoping to cease not till death.”
Song of Myself