Transcendental Ideals In Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself

When we think of the transcendental ideals, four things come to mind. The individual, God, nature, and how they can remain in connection with one another. When reading the longwinded and overly expressive poem “Song of Myself” written by Walt Whitman, one has to consider where the whole Transcendentalist ideal comes into play. In the first stanza he states “I CELEBRATE myself and sing myself.” This coincides strongly with the individualism that we often find in Transcendental Literature. When he says “Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the