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"I Sing the Body Electric" is a poem from the American writer Walt Whitman's magnum opus, Leaves of Grass. In this poem, a speaker sings the praises of the human body. The body, he says, is nothing less than a miracle: wonderful beyond description, it gives people their own distinct identity and connects them to every other person alive.
In ‘I Sing the Body Electric,’ Walt Whitman ( Bio | Poems) explores various parts of the human body with its function as a whole and as an individual part. He also tries to bridge the gap between body and soul. He lists out several ‘human bodies’ of people of different professions and age groups beyond ethnicity.
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth. them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to. them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the. charge of the Soul. 2 Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own. bodies conceal themselves?
1. I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them...
Walt Whitman. I Sing the Body Electric. 1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
Accessed 26 May 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>. Source File: whitman_encyclopedia.xml (TEI) "I Sing the Body Electric" was one of the twelve poems which comprised the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855). As with the other poems in that edition, it appeared without a title.
