When first reading Facing West from California’s Shores by Walt Whitman it may seem confusing as to who the narrator is. Walt Whitman uses various metaphors and personification in his poetry making it tricky to pick up what he is talking about. By looking at context clues it is assumable that the narrator is not Walt Whitman himself but another person or thing. By rereading and using context clues such as: personifications and metaphors it is inferable that the narrator is not Walt Whitman or another human being but America itself as it was back in the time Facing West from California’s Shores was written. The third stanza in the poem states that the narrator is a very old child. Which can cause difficulties in understanding because the line
