![]() ![]() Walt Whitman, in fact, invites others to the journey of selfhood. So that they can experience exactly what Whitman has experienced, so that the difference between “I” and “you” could be blurred. Walt Whitman seems to be toiling extremely hard to make his readers, his companions. ![]() In the first stage, he becomes conscious of his self in the second stage, his concept of the self develops to include the souls of all men in the third stage, it embraces God and in the fourth stage, the entire universe. ![]() I have tried to classify this journey of selfhood into four stages. It is a universal phenomenon extended to the whole humanity. For Whitman, it is not something static rather an ongoing process. According to Whitman, it is nothing else but the other name of a journey that is interpreted as a movement from “intrapersonal” to “interpersonal” and finally leading to “transpersonal”. His Song of Myself offers an insight into Whitman’s quest for the self-discovery. This research is an attempt to study the concept of “I” in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. Article Author: Aurang Zeb,Khamsa Qasim Abstract ![]()
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