What groans of over-fed or half-starv 'd who fall sunstruck or in fits , What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes , What living and buried speech is always vibrating here , what howls restrain 'd by decorum , Arrests of criminals , slights , adulterous offers made , acceptances , rejections with convex lips , I mind them or the show or resonance of them--I come and I depart (Song of Myself , lines 154 /158 . Whitman shows himself the precursor of...











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