Whitman’s Multitudes and Taproot’s Isolation: A Study in Modern Egotheism My first instinct was to decry Taproot’s “Poem” (2002), which includes the solipsistic line “This song is a poem to myself,” for not only failing but not even trying to measure up to its presumable…

A brief study of egotheism: Whitman’s cosmic “I” versus Taproot’s therapeutic self.
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