Prompts for the many selves inside a mother
A few lines of poetry. Three guided prompts. Space to think about what you are living through.
This edition of the Looking Closer Series centres on three of the most quoted lines in American poetry, drawn from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, first published in 1855. In them, Whitman does something quietly revolutionary — he claims his own contradictions not as a flaw to be corrected, but as evidence of how much life a single person can hold.
You don't need to know anything about poetry to use this prompt pack. Read the lines slowly, more than once if you can, and let the prompts take you from there.
What's inside
A short welcome
The poem extract, with notes on the poet and the work
Three guided journaling prompts
Format — PDF · print-friendly
Prompts for the many selves inside a mother
A few lines of poetry. Three guided prompts. Space to think about what you are living through.
This edition of the Looking Closer Series centres on three of the most quoted lines in American poetry, drawn from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, first published in 1855. In them, Whitman does something quietly revolutionary — he claims his own contradictions not as a flaw to be corrected, but as evidence of how much life a single person can hold.
You don't need to know anything about poetry to use this prompt pack. Read the lines slowly, more than once if you can, and let the prompts take you from there.
What's inside
A short welcome
The poem extract, with notes on the poet and the work
Three guided journaling prompts
Format — PDF · print-friendly