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What is the "Kosmos" in "Song Of Myself"?

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Answer: Nature

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The correct answer is:

a word of particular import, hypothesizing the sublime order of the universe

In the first three editions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855, 1856, 1860), the line in "Song of Myself" that Mir echoes in his "Countersong" reads "Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos".

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