Song of Myself

...As one researcher commented, "It's like a lava flow that can't stop anything, and remains in chaos forever," the ideal that he had given up on realizing now involuntarily turned inside out, refracted, and, so to speak, became itself, and began to sing "unconstrained and with its original energy." To quote a line from his representative work, "Song of Myself," he writes, "The restraints that held me down leave me... My travelling companions are my fantasies." No longer bound by the "constraints" of the real world, "I" unfold my "fantasies" as I please. However, the second edition, published the following year in 1956, not only significantly increased the number of poems, but also included a table of contents, titles, and a change to the traditional punctuation. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Song of Myself" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…〈何ものも歩みをとどめえず，つねに混沌のままでありつづける溶岩の流れ〉というある研究家の評言どおり，いまや実現を断念した理念が，内攻し，屈折し，いわばそれ自体となって，〈拘束を受けず本来の活力のままに〉歌い出したのである。代表作である《ぼく自身の歌Song of Myself》の一節を引けば，〈ぼくをつなぎとめ押さえつけていた束縛（いましめ）がぼくを離れる……旅ゆくぼくの道づれはぼくの幻想〉なのであり，もはや現実世界の〈束縛〉にはとらわれず，〈ぼく〉は思いのままに〈幻想〉を繰り広げる。　ところが翌56年に出た第2版は，詩編の数が大幅に増えただけでなく，目次ができ，表題がつけられ，句読法も伝統的なものに変わる。…

※「《Song of Myself》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報