In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Song of Myself's section 11 and Daisy Miller by Henry James in terms of how women are presented regarding behavior and social position. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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section 11 of Song of Myself. Social status and behavior are discussed along with a variety of thematic elements. Bibliography lists 2 sources. SA147Hi.rtf
There are differences and similarities in the social and sexual predicaments of the women who are at the center of Walt Whitmans Song of Myself
and Henry Jamess Daisy Miller. In Song of Myself Whitmans work is clearly about him, but the length of the poem and the separation of parts, makes one wonder just
how intricate this man was. He had the uncanny knack of compartmentalization. One looks at his or her own self and can create slices of life to accentuate different characteristics.
Everyone has a variety of roles. Whitman had the uncanny knack of separating selves. He cracks a mirror and the different
parts emerge in the slivers of glass, in a way that is most refreshing. In Section 11, themes of romance appear. That part of the poem begins:
Twenty-eight young men bathe by
the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome. (Whitman 39) Here, Whitmans
begins by comparing men with women. A student might observe that the poet is comparing men and women and how they react to love. Women are always unhappy unless they
get their man, at least that it how it was or how it was perceived in the days that Whitman wrote. Then, it becomes clear that Whitman is talking about