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Full Title: The Pieces of Walt Whitman that Move Within Me

Part 5
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This was part of a Creative/Critical project I did for one of my English classes. I took lines from the poetry of Walt Whitman and re-assembled them into a poem of my own, attempting to comment on the nature of poetry and aesthetics.

The final product incorporated the work of several articles and critics, but I'm just going to post the poem here in segments.

The project used the following pieces written by Walt Whitman for source material: "A Broadway Pageant," "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," "A Woman Waits for Me," "All is Truth," "Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?," "As Adam Early in the Morning," "Beat! Beat! Drums!," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Come Up from the Fields Father," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Earth, My Likeness," "Faces," "From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird," "From Pent-up Aching Rivers," "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," "I Sing the Body Electric," "In Paths Untrodden," "One Hour to Madness and Joy," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "Pioneers! O Pioneers!," "Scented Herbage of My Breast," "Song of Myself," "Song of the Answerer," "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," "Song of The Open Road," "Song of the Redwood Tree," "Sparkles from the Wheel," "Spontaneous Me," "Starting from Paumanok," "The Artilleryman's Vision," "The Wound-Dresser," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "This Compost," "To Think of Time," "To You (from Birds of Passage)," "Vocalism," "We Two Boys Together Clinging," "When I Heard at the Close of the Day," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Whoever you are holding me now in hand," "1855 Preface," "Democratic Vistas," and "Whitman to Emerson (a letter)."