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The observation may be extended to include "Song of Myself," which, although a new beginning in American poetry, is at the same time an epitaph to Victorian faith in self-reliance and inevitable progress. K. " Free of thesis and with greater critical acumen, David Daiches (1955a, 110) observes that Whitman "saw himself epically; his most trivial experience was thus potentially heroic, and his least observation could be presented as cosmic. " Gay Wilson Allen (1955a, 164) concurs in Daiches's judgment: "The final effect of `Song of Myself' is .
In the same year Richard Chase took up Emerson's point and Constance Rourke's delightful elaboration (but simplification) in American Humor A Study of the National Character, to establish Whitman's legitimacy not only in the American comic tradition but in the English as well. Richard P. Adams's undeservedly neglected essay in the Tulane Studies in English in 1955 is one of the best studies of the poem and proof that the principles of New Criticism can be applied creatively to Whitman's poetry.
The poem has been tested by all kinds of methodologies, without achieving a breakthrough to a widely acclaimed consensual reading. Even in the most perceptive and sensitive interpretations, too many resonances are silenced, multifaceted affects are constricted by intellectualizations (mind taking precedence over feelings), and significant parts of the poem are sometimes arbitrarily dismissed if they do not confirm the reader's theories. Too many approaches have, not surprisingly, proved reductive, and the poem is still greater than the sum of its readings.