Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself
Analysis- Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself”
“Song of Myself” strongly follows Whitman’s continuing search and development of the self. Even in this generation many people struggle with finding their true identity. We live in a society where routine schedules, same typical lifestyle and normal everyday jobs consume much of humanity. You see generations and generations of farmers, or businessmen, lowerclass or upper class, teachers or students, going through average routines that you must go through to become an adult, most do not know what they want to do with their life and by the time they are forced to make a choice its too late because they are drawn into a daily miserable cycle. Most of the time these cycles have no purpose, people get up, go to work to spend the money they do not have to impress the people they do not like, go to bed and repeat once …show more content…
Symbolism could be found when Whitman suggests that a child asks “what is grass?” he is forced to use symbolism to find its meaning. Through reflection and exploring his own depths of symbolism, Whitman concludes that grass represents regeneration in nature’s cycle which Whitman also links to Civil War graves in graveyards, a place where grass also grows. The idea of dead life supporting new life is immense. Is mans purpose in life to die to support their young and continue the cycle, or is there no purpose in that after all? Grass can be seen as a universal material that links us all to one another despite our location within a given region. Grass can also represent democracy, as it is a universal symbols that links us all together. We are all the same in a sense that Whitman tries to make a solid point saying that we exist as individual beings inseparable from it. He backs it up by saying that grass feeds off the bodies of the dead, which portrays regeneration. Life flourishes from our
“Song of Myself” strongly follows Whitman’s continuing search and development of the self. Even in this generation many people struggle with finding their true identity. We live in a society where routine schedules, same typical lifestyle and normal everyday jobs consume much of humanity. You see generations and generations of farmers, or businessmen, lowerclass or upper class, teachers or students, going through average routines that you must go through to become an adult, most do not know what they want to do with their life and by the time they are forced to make a choice its too late because they are drawn into a daily miserable cycle. Most of the time these cycles have no purpose, people get up, go to work to spend the money they do not have to impress the people they do not like, go to bed and repeat once …show more content…
Symbolism could be found when Whitman suggests that a child asks “what is grass?” he is forced to use symbolism to find its meaning. Through reflection and exploring his own depths of symbolism, Whitman concludes that grass represents regeneration in nature’s cycle which Whitman also links to Civil War graves in graveyards, a place where grass also grows. The idea of dead life supporting new life is immense. Is mans purpose in life to die to support their young and continue the cycle, or is there no purpose in that after all? Grass can be seen as a universal material that links us all to one another despite our location within a given region. Grass can also represent democracy, as it is a universal symbols that links us all together. We are all the same in a sense that Whitman tries to make a solid point saying that we exist as individual beings inseparable from it. He backs it up by saying that grass feeds off the bodies of the dead, which portrays regeneration. Life flourishes from our