...met. "I am the man. . . . I suffered. . . . I was there." Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels. ... I myself become the wounded person, I become any presence or truth of humanity here, And see myself in prison shaped like another man,...

...Individuality," 192, 197. starkly captured in one of the passages from "Song of Myself" quoted earlier: "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, / I myself become the wounded person." There is no doubt that this way of conceiving the ontological disclosure of the other to self may nourish...

...for flexible role-playing in his poetry. He pauses in a poem to boast of his role-playing ability: "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."2 5 In "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" he says he has "Play'd the part that still looks back on the...

...in a few of its many forms. Chapter THE EMPATHIZING SELF Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself...upon me as I lean on a cane and observe. . . I AM he that aches with amorous love. . . . — WALT WHITMAN, l.raves of Grass We now introduce the empathy...

.... my gore drips ... I fall on the weeds and stones . . . Agonies are one of my changes of garments. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person." And in another passage of the same poem, he aids a runaway who "staid with me a week before he was...

...Brahmaviharas, or Illimitable Sublime Moods — defined by Ananda Coomaraswamy in Walt Whitman's words: I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. . . I am the man, I suffered, I was there... Krishna, the Lord of Love, enjoins nothing less: Who burns...

...by inspiration per se but, more specifically, his adoption of the injuries of those who inspire him. "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person," Whitman writes in "Song of Myself." "My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe" (11....

...disease. Not surprisingly, they were not sympathetic to similar disorders amongst the POWs. Orderlies I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.210 be of varying standards," Bertram noted, "and the traditional British Army rendering of...

...feel what other people feel. Whitman demonstrates this "sympathy" (today, we would call it empathy): I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself...turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe. ("Song of Myself," section 33) Though sympathy is at the moral center of Whitman's world, he mentions...

...Grass is everyone and everything Walt identified with — whether it be a fugitive slave or a clock: "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels. I myself become the wounded person." Theater in Walt's time was inseparable from oratory. This was the golden age of speechifying. The masters...