I Sing the Body Electric
E69669
"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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| I Sing the Body Electric canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549506 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Sing the Body Electric Context triple: [Leaves of Grass, notablePoem, I Sing the Body Electric]
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A.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
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B.
Turbulent Indigo
Turbulent Indigo is a critically acclaimed 1994 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, noted for its dark, introspective themes and sophisticated jazz-influenced arrangements.
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C.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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D.
Lady Lazarus
"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that powerfully explores themes of death, resurrection, and female identity through dark, ironic, and theatrical imagery.
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E.
To Be the Poet
"To Be the Poet" is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston in which she meditates on aging, creativity, and her late-life turn from prose to poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Sing the Body Electric Target entity description: "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.
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A.
The Hissing of Summer Lawns
The Hissing of Summer Lawns is a 1975 studio album by Joni Mitchell that blends jazz, pop, and experimental elements in a series of lyrically complex, character-driven songs.
-
B.
Turbulent Indigo
Turbulent Indigo is a critically acclaimed 1994 studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, noted for its dark, introspective themes and sophisticated jazz-influenced arrangements.
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C.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
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D.
Lady Lazarus
"Lady Lazarus" is a confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that powerfully explores themes of death, resurrection, and female identity through dark, ironic, and theatrical imagery.
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E.
To Be the Poet
"To Be the Poet" is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston in which she meditates on aging, creativity, and her late-life turn from prose to poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
free verse poem
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poem ⓘ |
| associatedAuthor | Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ |
| associatedWork | Song of Myself ⓘ |
| author | Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPublication | Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| form | free verse ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
American Romanticism
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Transcendentalism ⓘ |
| literaryTechnique |
anaphora
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cataloguing ⓘ imagery ⓘ parallelism ⓘ repetition ⓘ |
| meter | non-metrical ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | first person ⓘ |
| partOf | Leaves of Grass ⓘ |
| philosophicalPerspective |
humanism
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pantheism ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1855 ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | unrhymed ⓘ |
| setting | 19th-century America ⓘ |
| 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 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: I Sing the Body Electric Description of subject: "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.
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