WWQR > Vol. 5 (1987) > No. 2
Abstract
Offers a close reading of "The Sleepers" that uses manuscript drafts and comparisons with its "companion piece," "Song of Myself," to explore how Whitman's "catalogue rhetoric" and "syntactic parallelisms" provide keys to understanding the poem.
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Copyright © 1987 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Warren, James Perrin. ""Catching the Sign": Catalogue Rhetoric in "The Sleepers"." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 5 (Fall 1987), 16-34.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol5/iss2/4
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Fall
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