Walt Whitman was one of the poets that we can associate to the evolution period from Transcendentalism (the uniquely American "school" of Romanticism) and realism. This simply means that we can find elements of both Transcendentalism and realism in his poetry. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman coeval a view of life where mankind enjoys an uncommonly close relationship with nature, so close, in fact, that even when he envision himself dying. In Section 52 he believes that this will not impact upon his own sense of identity, as the following quote describes: I depart as air... I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you
