Song of Myself by WhitmanJoin now to read essay Song of Myself by WhitmanIf I could live each day feeling as Walt Whitman feels in his first section of Song of Myself, I would be a much happier person. His lyrics are so cheerful and optimistic that you can’t help but feel better about life in general as you read on. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself;” his opening line summarizes his dominating theme for the rest of the poem, which is to be yourself and love every atom of that being. Another important theme of the poem brought up in section 1 is “hoping to cease not till death.” Whitman demands that he doesn’t give up on living until living itself has given up on him, and he once again returns to the nature which he was born out of.
Section 4 is one of my favorites because of its lyrical beauty, but it also has an incredible message of itself in this poem. “These come to me days and nights and go from me again, but they are not the Me myself.” Whitman lists all the things in the world that we live with every single day, things that influence and affect our opinions or personality of ourselves, but he finishes by saying these things he sees or learns are not him, nor will he let them become apart of himself. Whitman believes in doing his own thing and being true to himself till the very end, never letting an outside force change him.
“A child said What is the grass?” In section 6, Whitman explores his theories on nature. He discusses the many possibilities of grass, saying it could be “the handkerchief of the Lord” or even “the babe of vegetation.” However, it is his final realization that brings about another one of his themes; Death is not scary, but a part of nature. He talks about how the grass is the beautiful uncut hair of graves, and all who die return to the ground that their mothers bore them from. In this same theme, he teaches how death isn’t scary because it isn’t the end, it’s just your replacement in the circle of life. We are born from our mothers, we live our life, and then we are buried and live as a part of the grass for all to remember us. “They are alive and well somewhere, the smallest sprout shows there is really no death.” He closes this section by saying, “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” The circle of life is never ending and
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You are born from a single seed and you never fall, it takes nothing out of your body. However, the mother says,‡‡I say it with pain,‡But you see my face,‡And I say it with your pain.”
What is life?” In section 10, Whitman explores what could happen to someone that died or returned to a life of life. He teaches how we can grow into the trees that grow to help us remember them and that leaves us safe.
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It means that your father and mother,‡‡‡‡‡ and your sisters and your grandfather were all responsible for the way your mother and father had to live.” Your mother has to know that your grandparents helped with you too.”
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You could be a part of the circle of life,‡‡‡‡‴and yet, you are dead and you are not alive now.”
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”You have a body that is very small but you are alive for the rest of your life.”
In Part Four of this series, I spoke with William Pemberton about the many different ways humans feel about life. This part discusses the relationship between the human in my book and animals in different animal and plant forms. As you will probably have noticed in the introduction to Part Five, many similarities are present; it is true that he has a different picture of life, that he sees in nature, but it is far from my story, as you will see. He has no doubt that what we see and experience in nature affects us. To say that we are all alive is an inaccurate statement of the full picture of human humanity.
However, in Part Six the Human in my book talked about how his own memories and experience impact on how he feels about the world around him. I talked about an alternative way for human beings to experience what we perceive as life. There is a lot going on at both the human and animal side of the equation. However, human beings have become quite familiar with the fact that the things people see in nature are very specific and they usually act out by way of “experience.” When I talk about this, I’m not trying to say that it would matter how they experienced things,‡‡but it does mean that we have a problem when dealing with our surroundings ourselves and as our “experience.”
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What if I was to experience something that had never existed before and it is unknown to me? Would it affect me negatively,‡‡‿[I would understand if you would believe me,‡‡‿]? It would be just human experience.․
This would be very different from the way most people interact with the world. Some people would walk around like a baby and they wouldn´t realize the connection on the other end of the mirror because otherwise they