I Sing the Body Electric
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"I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
free verse poem
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poem → |
| associatedAuthor |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| associatedWork |
Song of Myself
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| author |
Walt Whitman
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| firstPublication |
Leaves of Grass
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| form |
free verse
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| genre |
poetry
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| hasCanonicalStatus |
classic of American literature
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key poem in Leaves of Grass → |
| influenced |
American poetry
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free verse tradition → modernist poetry → |
| language |
English
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| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism → |
| literaryTechnique |
anaphora
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cataloguing → imagery → parallelism → repetition → |
| meter |
non-metrical
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| narrativeVoice |
first person
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| partOf |
Leaves of Grass
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| philosophicalPerspective |
humanism
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pantheism → |
| publicationYear |
1855
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| rhymeScheme |
unrhymed
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| setting |
19th-century America
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| subject |
laborers
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lovers → men and women → the human form → |
| subjectMatter |
ordinary people
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physical body → spiritual self → |
| theme |
collective humanity
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democracy → equality → human body → individualism → sacredness of the body → sexuality → soul → spirituality → unity of body and soul → |
| tone |
celebratory
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reverent → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Leaves of Grass
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notablePoem |
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Walt Whitman
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wrote |