America is a rose, every petal is similar, but different from one another just like the people of America. On the stem of the rose there are many sharp thorns, these represents the problems that exist America. they are shown outward and not hidden due to the imperfect nation that America is. When the rose is observed it is considered a beautiful specimen of diversity, just like America. In From Preface of the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass the author Walt Whitman discusses that American’s human nature allows them to succeed. Another example of an American’s human nature is in “I Hear America Singing”, here the hard working and hoping to leave a legacy state of mind helps all people to succeed. In “Song of Myself”, Whitman expresses his
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Whitman also believes that the soil he was born on has granted him the American human nature, which means the ability to have the hardworking and ambitious mindset. In “Song of Myself 9” Whitman expresses his urge to help harvest the generation of Americans to come, because he believes that they have value (Wiggins 429). A child in “Song of Myself 6” asks “What is the grass” Whitman relies “I guess it must be a flag of my disposition”, Whitman believes that the grass is an outward metaphor of the people of the united states. In “Song of Myself 6” he also indirectly says that individuality, legacy, and lessons are important because they make a person who they are (Wiggins 428-429:1,3). When Whitman does in “Song of Myself 52”, he says “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, if you want me again look under your boot soles”. Whitman is giving himself to nature eternally, he is showing the true love between a man and his American roots (Wiggins
Whitman also believes that the soil he was born on has granted him the American human nature, which means the ability to have the hardworking and ambitious mindset. In “Song of Myself 9” Whitman expresses his urge to help harvest the generation of Americans to come, because he believes that they have value (Wiggins 429). A child in “Song of Myself 6” asks “What is the grass” Whitman relies “I guess it must be a flag of my disposition”, Whitman believes that the grass is an outward metaphor of the people of the united states. In “Song of Myself 6” he also indirectly says that individuality, legacy, and lessons are important because they make a person who they are (Wiggins 428-429:1,3). When Whitman does in “Song of Myself 52”, he says “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, if you want me again look under your boot soles”. Whitman is giving himself to nature eternally, he is showing the true love between a man and his American roots (Wiggins