In Walt Whitman’s poem “song of Myself”, from the book Leaves of Grass written in 1855, explains how each individual is composed of everything around them. Whitman depicts, “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air” (ll. 6). Nevertheless, Whitman insists that every individual contains atoms, so substantially everyone should have an equal share of everything. Every atom, in every person comes from nature, so this gives people the idea that they’re connected to nature. Whitman delineates “Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of vegetation” (ll. 20). The transcendentalist believed that nature had been the higher power that surrounds the individual. Whitman exhibits, “All goes onward and outward, nothing
