But the 1800s also saw revolutionary, innovative works from poets like Walt Whitman. ... As a result, each line would be quite long and one sentence can go on for several lines in "Song of Myself" and the others: "My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,/...the song of me rising from beed and meeting the sun" (23-32). ... His long sentences tend to be wordy with superfluous vocabulary. In addition to this, he tends to expand upon sentences with repetitions that extend the lines further: "You shall no longe...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sentences such as "And this, alas, is more than wee would doe" epitomise the misleading colloquial language. ... Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. ...

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