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I need to find a poem based on the concept of identity. The poet should be relatively well known and the poem of decent length (decent being abou maybe 20 lines or so?) for analysis in a paper. I wonder if anyone could help me out? Any aspect of identity can be explored.

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Answer 1

Of The Terrible Doubt Of Apperarances
Walt Whitman

Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all--that we may be deluded,
That maybe reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
That maybe identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
Maybe the things I perceive--the animals, plants, men, hills,
shining and flowing waters,
The skies of day and night--colors, densities, forms--
Maybe these are, (as doubtless they are,) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known;
(How often they dart out of themselves,
as if to confound me and mock me!
How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows,
aught of them;)
Maybe seeming to me what they are,
(as doubtless they indeed but seem,)
as from my present point of view--And might prove,
(as of course they would,)
naught of what they appear,
or naught any how, from entirely changed points of view;
--To me, these, and the like of these, are curiously answer'd by
my lovers, my dear friends;
When he whom I love travels with me, or sits a long while holding me
by the hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable,
the sense that words and reason
hold not, surround us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom
--I am silent--
I require nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances, or that of identity
beyond the grave;
But I walk or sit indifferent--I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Answer 2

"Tom Waits" was the greatestest poet of the 1970's.
"Shiver Me Timbers;" takes soul searching & identity exploration, to a new level.

Answer 3

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