Editing Song of Myself (section)

==Uses in other media==
Canadian doctor and long-time Whitman friend [[Richard Maurice Bucke]] analyzed the poem in his influential and widely read 1898 book ''[[Cosmic Consciousness]]'', as part of his investigation of the development of man's mystic relation to the infinite.

Simon Wilder delivers this poem to Monty Kessler in [[With Honors (film)|''With Honors'']]. Walt Whitman's work features prominently throughout the film, and Simon Wilder is often referred to as Walt Whitman's ghost.

A line from 52 from Song of Myself is featured in the film ''[[Dead Poets Society]]'' directed by [[Peter Weir]]. The line refers to the sounding of the 'barbaric yawp', which often illustrates the urgency of the films protagonists and was read out to them by their English teacher John Keating, played by [[Robin Williams]].

The poem figures in the plot of the 2008 young adult novel ''[[Paper Towns (novel)|Paper Towns]]'' by [[John Green]].<ref name="Poolos2014">{{cite book|author=Christine Poolos|title=John Green|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IpFhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41|date=15 December 2014|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-1-4777-7904-0|page=41}}</ref>

A documentary project, Whitman Alabama, featured residents of Alabama reading Whitman verses on camera.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitmanalabama.com/|title=Whitman, Alabama &#124; "Song of Myself" Documentary Series|website=Whitmanalabama.com|access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/jia-tolentino/reciting-walt-whitman-at-a-drug-court-in-alabama|title=Reciting Walt Whitman at a Drug Court in Alabama|date=20 March 2017|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref>

The poem is central to the plot of the play ''I and You'' by [[Lauren Gunderson]].<ref name="Gunderson2018">{{cite book|author=Lauren Gunderson|title=I and You|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpODDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67|date=20 December 2018|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-350-10510-2|page=67}}</ref>

"Song of Myself" was a major inspiration for the symphonic metal album ''[[Imaginaerum]]'' (2011) by [[Nightwish]], as well as [[Imaginaerum (film)|the fantasy film based on that album]].

The poem is recited (or rather enacted) by lead character Will (played by [[Winston Duke]]) in the climatic closing scene of the 2020 movie [[Nine Days (film)|Nine Days.]]