In the poem, Song of Myself the poet Walt Whitman states the grass represents the endless cycle of life. Whitman believed that the grass might be “...the hankerchief of the Lord’’ (ll. 17). This demonstrates that nature was their god and they worshipped nature.. They believed that if they died, they would go to nature and would be reborn if they looked in the right place. They believed nature was a form for something to be reborn and continue a new life. A child asked Whitman, “...what is the grass?” (ll. 14). Whitman explains that grass was part of nature which made them closer to nature because they believed that was the key to being reborn.Whitman emphasizes that the child and the grass are the same. The child and the grass are the same
