Even though the speaker is confused and is not too entirely sure of what he is feeling at the beginning of the poem, in the end he came to the realization that the emotion he was feeling was indeed happiness. Whitman feelings towards the emotion happiness sort of catches the readers by surprise since it is an emotion that has had been dormant in him for a while, which allows the audience to insinuate happiness was unfamiliar to him. For instance, Walt Whitman said, “Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on” (1066). The quote above shows the turning point of section 50 since it discusses that whatever the speaker is feeling is bigger than even the earth itself. In other words, the feeling Whitman is experiencing is greater than himself, that happiness can not be put into words or into any symbol. He believed that happiness could only be described as waiting for a friend ready to embrace the
Even though the speaker is confused and is not too entirely sure of what he is feeling at the beginning of the poem, in the end he came to the realization that the emotion he was feeling was indeed happiness. Whitman feelings towards the emotion happiness sort of catches the readers by surprise since it is an emotion that has had been dormant in him for a while, which allows the audience to insinuate happiness was unfamiliar to him. For instance, Walt Whitman said, “Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on” (1066). The quote above shows the turning point of section 50 since it discusses that whatever the speaker is feeling is bigger than even the earth itself. In other words, the feeling Whitman is experiencing is greater than himself, that happiness can not be put into words or into any symbol. He believed that happiness could only be described as waiting for a friend ready to embrace the