Song Of Myself In Walt Whitman's The Leaves Of Grass

“Song of myself” is one of Walt Whitman 's excellent poetry of The Leaves of Grass. He emphasizes an all-powerful "self". Instead of referring to Walt himself, the self is both individual and universal. He wrote this poem to sing about himself, to express his thoughts about democracy, to set free his human passion, to praise great nationality. In this poem, Walt Whitman presents the speaker that he sees a hawk, and his response is to feel immensely humbled as he sees elements of himself in the hawk. He is under no restraint whatever. The day seems to wait for him to get ready to move on. It leads him on into darkness. His hair became white and is shook at the setting sun. He dissolves into the air, leaving like the air and fusing his flesh in the "eddies" of water. He gives himself up to the dirt in order to grow from his favorite grass. If we want to find Whitman, we have to look at the ground under our …show more content…
By describing a harmonious picture of natural landscape with human being, Walt Whitman expressed the harmonious beauty of the modern civilization with primitive nature. He thought nature and human being should be frank and kind to each other. When he talks about the death, he said “I bequeath myself to the dirt grow from the grass I love.” In other words, even when he died, he wanted to be part of the dirt, part of grass and part of everything in nature, either spiritually or even physically. Someone said he devotes himself to the nature. However, instead of devoting, I think because he loves and admires nature that he is totally willing by himself to give his body and soul back to the nature and continue a great journey. Moreover, considering the whole poem, he uses a lot of nature things to express his thoughts. He provides a glorious and wild nature view to reader. Because of that, we not only can see the writer’s ambitious and unruly image but also a small but not inferior