Read this quotation from poem 51 of whitman's leaves of grass: "do i contradict myself? " the speaker asks this question because he

Walt Whitman asks this question because he wants the reader to think about the question. In this, he celebrates the idea of being who he is, as a human. What he means in the statement is that he is contradictory, which is like doing one thing but saying the other. In other words, he is a man of inconsistency, which is human nature in itself.

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