I Sing the Body Electric
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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I Sing the Body Electric, poem by
Whitman, untitled in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass, later called “Poem of the Body” as a section of “Children of Adam,” and given its present title in 1867. It celebrates the anatomy and the form of men, women, and children, declaring, “These are not the parts and poems of the Body only, but of the Soul, O I say now these are the soul!”
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