I need a Walt Whitman poem to compare to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote?

Question

I need to compare and contrast a Walt Whitman poem to a Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem. Any ideas on what poems I should use?

Answer 1

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"Coney Island of the Mind" and "Song of Myself."

Answer 2

Was somebody asking to see the soul?
See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts,
the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.

All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
How can the real body ever die and be buried?

Of you real body and any man's or woman's real body,
Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and
pass to fitting spheres,
Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the
moment of death.

Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the
meaning, the main concern,
Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance
and life return in the body and the soul.
Indifferently before death and after death.

Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern and
includes and is the soul;
Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any
part of it."

-Walt Whitman