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Walt Whitman Poetry Analysis

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Who am I? Many don’t take the time to ask themselves this simple question. One’s identity is composed of merely three items. These three components are the mind, body, and soul. The mind is the headquarters of all operations that function throughout the body. It holds memories and knowledge that dates back to birth. The body is the machine. It receives orders from the mind and carries them out. Last, but not least, we stumble upon the soul. The soul is considered to be the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans. So before you is placed three entities, two of which are contained inside of one another. The soul on the other hand, is free from captivity. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman are three men who set out on the journey to find the deepest component of their being. Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman viewed one’s inner being as …show more content…

Walt Whitman would probably answer this question by stating, “There is no other song that is so sweet.” Even though when one imagines a song music starts flowing through their eardrums, but Whitman wrote his song in the form of a poem. In this poem Whitman does not only form tunes related to himself, but he also produces harmony in relation to nature and society as a whole. Some of Whitman’s key lines in Song of Myself giving a comparison to society and nature itself read:
I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self-contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. (Whitman,

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