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'Song of Myself' opens with which line?Read the answer and worked solution →

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'Song of Myself' opens with which line?

  1. Whose woods these are I think I know
  2. I wandered lonely as a cloud
  3. I celebrate myself, and sing myself
  4. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
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Correct answer: C. I celebrate myself, and sing myself

1. The opening line is among the most famous in American poetry. 2. The verb pair 'celebrate'/'sing' announces the self-reflexive method. 3. It establishes individual consciousness as the poem's centre. _Source: Project Gutenberg #1322 — Whitman's Leaves of Grass — "I celebrate myself, and sing myself"_

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