Often considered the most influential volume of poetry in American literature, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was unconventional in both content and technique and initially scandalized the public with its frank celebration of sexuality. The first edition contained 12 poems, including “Song of Myself,” in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people, but Whitman revised and expanded subsequent editions. How many poems are found in his “deathbed edition”? Discuss