Whitman

Esa sociedad de muchedumbres que Tocqueville observó, intuyó, predijo tenía, sin embargo, su poeta: Walt Whitman. I am large, I contain multitudes. Un ejemplo entre muchos:

Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.