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. |
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This was the
man, who, as he says in Song of Myself, |
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I too am not a
bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. |
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I sound my
barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. |
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The song of
myself begins with “I,” but it ends with “you.” |