My Contradictory Multitudes: Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman, And My Own Song of Myself
3 min readNov 16, 2020
Bob Dylan brought back Walt Whitman’s famous words this year, in the form of a song he called “I Contain Multitudes”.
Here Dylan with his grizzled wit and 60 year old poetic persona recontextualizes Whitman’s famous words from his poem…