"Catching the Sign": Catalogue Rhetoric in "The Sleepers"

James Perrin Warren

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1167

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"Catching the Sign": Catalogue Rhetoric in "The Sleepers"

Abstract

Offers a close reading of "The Sleepers" that uses manuscript drafts and comparisons with its "companion piece," "Song of Myself," to explore how Whitman's "catalogue rhetoric" and "syntactic parallelisms" provide keys to understanding the poem.

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How to Cite: Warren, J. P. (1987) “"Catching the Sign": Catalogue Rhetoric in "The Sleepers"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 5(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1167