The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps. It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists. —Joseph O. Legaspi. She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers. Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges. referencing I Sing The Body Electric, LP, Album, Pit, KC 31352 Bought this December 1972 National Record Mart because of the cover. Question: Coding Challenge 4-4 I Sing The Body Electric By Walt Whitman Part 1: I Sing The Body Electric, The Armies Of Those I Love Engirth Me And I Engirth Them, They Will Not Let Me Off Till I Go With Them, Respond To Them, And Discorrupt Them, And Charge Them Full With The Charge Of The Soul. The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body. Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant. To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more. "I Sing the Body Electric" ( The Twilight Zone), a 1962 episode of the TV series, written by Ray Bradbury Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant? When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang. O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul. I sing the body electric I celebrate the me yet to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun. I Sing the Body Electric is a quest in We Happy Few. So, I consented and rejoiced in what I am, and my desires: bodily." That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect. Body Electric Lyrics: Elvis is my daddy / Marilyn's my mother / Jesus is my bestest friend / We don't need nobody / 'Cause we got each other / Or at least I pretend / We get down every Friday night You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice. . WOW! The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them. There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well. Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening. Users who like BODY ELECTRIC - SUNLIGHT; Users who reposted BODY ELECTRIC - SUNLIGHT; Playlists containing BODY ELECTRIC - SUNLIGHT; More tracks like BODY ELECTRIC - SUNLIGHT; License: cc-by-nc or the fool that corrupted her own live body?For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves. But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face. And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? Within there runs blood,The same old blood! Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of I Sing The Body Electric on Discogs. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live body? You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side. Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed. I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,Man’s, woman’s, child, youth’s, wife’s, husband’s, mother’s, father’s, young man’s, young woman’s poems,Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,Upper-arm, armpit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews, arm-bones,Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone, breast-side,Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone,Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,Leg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg,Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel;All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female,The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, maternity,Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud,Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,The skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body,The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,The exquisite realization of health;O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,O I say now these are the soul! The poem is divided into nine sections, each celebrating a different aspect of human physicality. Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here, (Where else does he strike soundings except here?). I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons,And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.This man was a wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, handsome,They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love,He drank water only, the blood show’d like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face,He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail’d his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other. The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves; And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here, (Where else does he strike soundings except here?). the same red-running blood! The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes. The quality of the stories, at least how interesting the were to me, was a bit hit or miss. Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well. Ribs, belly, backbone, joints of the backbone. The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean. The male is not less the soul nor more, he too is in his place,He too is all qualities, he is action and power,The flush of the known universe is in him,Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,The wildest largest passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow that is utmost become him well, pride is for him,The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,Knowledge becomes him, he likes it always, he brings every thing to the test of himself,Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,(Where else does he strike soundings except here?). The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shouting aloud. (H0.482651-SC000002927). The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.). The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul. I Sing the Body Electric is the title of a 1855 poem by Walt Whitman, which is where Pitchford found the inspiration. And I look back on Venus, I look back on Mars And I burn with the fire of ten million stars And in time, and in time we will all be stars. Print and Download I Sing The Body Electric sheet music. I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems. The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards. These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also. It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction. The album was released through Columbia Records in May 1972. They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him. You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other. He too is all qualities, he is action and power. And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face. The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horse-man in his saddle. Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well. (Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?). "I Sing the Body Electric" was one of the twelve poems which comprised the first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855). The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners. Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue. She is in her place and moves with perfect balance. Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel; All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or female. I knew a man, a common farmer, the father of five sons. In "I Sing the Body Electric," Whitman explores the physicality of the human body. I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough. Arthur decides to investigate what the workers are up to in the alley, as Mrs. Oliphant had sent Gemma to investigate on them, but Arthur believes there's something wrong going on. Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition. Poem of the week: from I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman. "I Sing the Body Electric" is episode 100 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? It begins after the quest, Cub Reporter, is completed. I Sing the Body Electric digital sheet music. No matter who it is, it is sacred—is it the meanest one in the laborers’ gang? This best known and most enthralling of Whitman’s poems is a praise-song to physicality that raises questions about the soul. In a 2012 Songfacts interview, he explained how it came together: "I wrote the first verse in the course of a walk that I was making from my apartment to a friend's dinner party. The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them. The poem's first line, later changed, was, "The bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them," at the outset announcing itself as a poem about the human body. The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body. Label: CBS - S64943 • Format: Vinyl LP, Album, Repress • Country: Netherlands • Genre: Jazz • Style: Fusion Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs. Who was I to argue with such wisdom. In it and below it the makings of heroes. The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners. I Sing the Body Electric is the second album released by Weather Report from 1972. Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition. With Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor, Doris Packer. Undulating into the willing and yielding day. 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