Who Is Revealed In Walt Whitman's Poem Song Of Myself

In Walt Whitman's poem, “Song of Myself” he offers an interpretation of the grass as being when a life’s lost, another reborn. The poet states that, “I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord/ A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt”(11.17-18). This quote portrays that life is remembered, but also quickly forgotten. We could have an object or smell that reminds of someone, but overtime he forgets and never remember them. Walt shows that you end up forgetting them because you learn to live without them and you know you’ll meet again. Whitman describes that, “This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,/ Darker than the colorless beards of old men,/ Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths” (11.31-33).