The second section of “Song of Myself” takes us from “Houses and rooms […] full of perfumes” through a series of excited contacts “undisguised and naked” to a conclusion in which we are invited to see all things for ourselves, not through the eyes of others.
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Series 10.2, Whitman's "Song of Myself" 2
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The second section of “Song of Myself” takes us from “Houses and rooms […] full of perfumes” through a series of excited contacts “undisguised and naked” to a conclusion in which we are invited to see all things for ourselves, not through the eyes of others.