•Whitman would allow no one to
pick up his papers, saying that whatever he wanted surfaced
sooner or later.
•Whitman died on 26 March 1892 at about 6:30
p.m. and is buried in the tomb that he had designed.
The cause of
death was mostly old age: Whitman’s lungs had collapsed, although he had
suffered health problems for several years since his stroke in 1873.
This was the
man, who, as he says in Song of Myself,
I too am not a
bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
I sound my
barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
The song of
myself begins with “I,” but it ends with “you.”
