Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A PUPIL, by WALT WHITMAN


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First Line: Is reform needed? Is it through you?
Last Line: Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality.
Subject(s): Schools; Students


Is reform needed? is it through you?
The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality
you need to accomplish it.

You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood,
complexion, clean and sweet?
Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and
soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of
desire and command enters with you, and every one is
impress'd with your Personality?

O the magnet! the flesh over and over!
Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence
to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality,
self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.






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