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This poem debates “how there can be a mean man or an infidel” in a section that asks “What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?” This long poem was first given a title in the “Deathbed” edition of the collection (20[1])which (20[1])contains it. (20[2]0[1])In this poem, (20[2])an “unseen hand… (20[1])descended trembling” upon twenty eight male (20[1])bathers. (20[10])This (20[1])poem’s “untranslatable” (20[2]0[1])speaker (20[1])sounds a “barbaric (*) yawp (10[3]0[2])over (10[2])the rooftops (10[2])of the world.” (10[1])Answers like “the handkerchief of the Lord” are provided to a child’s question in this poem of “What is the grass?” This poem’s (10[1])speaker (10[1])asks “Do I contradict myself?” and responds “I am large, and contain multitudes.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this poem, the longest from Leaves of Grass, in which Walt Whitman “celebrates” himself. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Song of Myself
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