To demonstrate, the poet describes a number of everyday events in so much detail that he indicates his intimate contact with life. This union brings him peace and joy.Through the Song of Myself poem, Walt Whitman uses a variety of cunning commentaries as well as symbolism to argue that he is intricately related to the 3 concepts of life, The Universe, as well as death. He has a feeling of fraternity and oneness with God and his fellowmen ('And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own/And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own') and a vision of love ('And.

Section 5 is the poet's ecstatic revelation of union with his soul.

is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.' More important is the eternal procreant urge of the world.' He prepares himself for the union of his body with his soul: 'I witness and wait.' As his soul is 'clear and sweet,' so are all the other parts of his body -and everyone's bodies. In the third and fourth sections, Whitman chides the 'talkers,' 'trippers,' and 'askers' for wasting their time discussing 'the beginning and the end,' and 'the latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies. He can enjoy each of the five senses - tasting, hearing, smelling, touching, and seeing-and even more - the process of breathing, the beating of his heart, and 'the feeling of health.' He invites the reader to 'stop this day and night' with him in order to discover 'the origin of all poems.' He is enthralled by the ecstasy of his physical sensations. The poet expresses the joy he feels through his senses. The poet is tempted to let himself be submerged by other individual selves, but he is determined to maintain his individuality. 'Perfumes' are symbols of other individual selves but outdoors, the earth's atmosphere denotes the universal self.

'Houses and rooms are full of perfume,' Whitman says. In section 2, the self, asserting its identity, declares its separateness from civilization and its closeness to nature. He will let nature speak without check with original energy.' He is thirtyseven years old and 'in perfect health.' He hopes to continue his celebration of self until his death. He relates that he was 'form'd from this soil,' for he was born here, as were his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The poet will 'sing myself,' but 'what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.' The poet loafs on the grass and invites his soul to appear.

This poem celebrates the poet's self, but, while the 'I' is the poet himself, it is, at the same time, universalized. Whitman: The Quintessential American Poet.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?.

Song of myself poem