Portrayal Of Nature In Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself

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Portrayal of Nature in “Song of Myself”
Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” pictures how he loves nature and everything around him, how everything relates to him in a positive way by becoming familiar with yourself physically and spiritually contemplating different possibilities making it a poem not just about himself but a poem for and about everyone’s nature. Whitman’s use of grass in section 6 of the poem describes nature of humans and their life circle.
Whitman uses the imagery of grass to denote the innocence of the child and to let him know that he was as clueless as the child was about the definition of grass. Whitman uses a child to emphasize that we are not born knowing things and that it was just a symbol of the expectations of nature itself (lines 1-2), that being the first step of the circle of nature and life to be born and learn things through time. Naturally human beings always compete and
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Walt Whitman’s view of nature gets readers wondering and keeps them engaged with all his phrases with double meaning, as simple as it sounds, but a little complicated at the same time, but still he loves the nature of the human beings and how capable they are of being equal yet different at the same time without an understanding of why things really happen in life and that we are all subject to live and die at the end with many answered and unanswered questions, it makes the reader wonder how dark or colorful the world they live