Identity In Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself

In "Song of Myself" Whitman links his identity to all humankind and does so right off the bat. In the first section, first line, he says that he is celebrating himself and leads the readers to understand that he is speaking of the human race. ""For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." He is saying that everything that he is made of (atoms), we are made of as well. If he chooses to celebrate himself, he is, by default, celebrating all humankind. In the third line, still in the first section, he asks us to "temporarily disuse" those establishments that divide us, like religion and school. "Creeds and schools in abeyance." Religion will have us divided between who is morally correct and who is not, and school will have us divided