(Song, p. 4) Note that this connection is simply made through lying in the grass and listening to ambient sounds, not through forcing song or voice to fill what isn't really empty in the first place. This is the first key connection between Whitman and Rilke's ideal of the self, as Rilke also believed that humans had to stop focusing on what we think the world is, and start noticing the truth: Yes, the springtimes have needed you. ... Whitman mentions on p. 47 of Song of Myself, Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, My embryo has never been torpid. . . ....

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• Grade Level: High School

There are a few things to note about this guy, since he's pretty revealing in the way he goes about this poem. ... The Realist When you start a poem with "If I should die," then you're already confronting a cold, hard truth that most people would rather not think about. ...

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The poem shows Owen's individualism through his subversion of popular' imagery (that of the Romantics) to reveal the truth about war. ... It is interesting to note though, that Owen at the end of this description of sudden movement, ends this stanza (as he does most of the stanzas in the poem) with the words but nothing happens. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... Only this, and nothing else (30). ... It's just the wind and nothing else!... He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). ...

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• Grade Level: High School