What work of Whitman is called programmatic? Who is the main character in it?
| May 7, 2021 | education
The poem “Song of Myself” was a program piece in the “Leaves of Grass” cycle. The poem is written without rhyming, includes fifty-two sections. The poem is a monologue, “history of the soul,” a spiritual process. This work combines two genre forms – an epic poem and a lyric poem.
The poem was included in the cycle in 1855. Whitman said that this poem reflects his life in New York and Brooklyn, that it shows the lives of millions of people.
The main character is the author himself.
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