SOURCE: "Who Speaks in Whitman's Poems?" in Bucknell Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1983, pp. 121-43.
In the following essay, Breitwieser suggests that Whitman's usage of multiple voices in Leaves of Grass has political parallels. Breitwieser emphasizes the conflict in the poems between the voice of the small, individual "I" and that of the large, magnanimous, universal "I."
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