Walt Whitman's 'A Child Said What Is The Grass?'
Awareness After Death?
The style of Walt Whitman’s poem “A child said what is the Grass?” embodies American transcendentalism because Whitman’s poetic skills show the continuation of life and death by using grass as a representation of the cycle of life. In the last stanza of the poem, it states “the smallest sprouts show there is really no death, and if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end at the end to arrest it, and ceased the moment life appeared.” The poem explores the idea of death being the theme. Whitman uses death in this poem to portray death as a big part of life and nature itself. The poem shows that death has a further meaning rather than an ending by Whitman dealing with the fact that death is inevitable.
The style of Walt Whitman’s poem “A child said what is the Grass?” embodies American transcendentalism because Whitman’s poetic skills show the continuation of life and death by using grass as a representation of the cycle of life. In the last stanza of the poem, it states “the smallest sprouts show there is really no death, and if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end at the end to arrest it, and ceased the moment life appeared.” The poem explores the idea of death being the theme. Whitman uses death in this poem to portray death as a big part of life and nature itself. The poem shows that death has a further meaning rather than an ending by Whitman dealing with the fact that death is inevitable.