Song of Myself is a landmark poem by American writer and poet Walt Whitman, originally published in his collection Leaves of Grass. The poem is shaped by the transcendentalist movement's major writers, naturists like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It deals with mental health, the coexistence of Man and nature, and the complexities of group and individual identity. The poem draws heavily on Whitman's own experiences for its context.
The Texture of the Sixth Poem of Song of Myself In number six of Whitmans poetic series Song of Myself it seems that he is trying to convey the point that to die is not what people make it out to be Whitman throughout many of the poems in this series describes death as lucky and beneficial He also explains how death leads to the beginning of life in this poem The tone at the very beginning of this poem seems a bit youthful Especially when the question What is grass is posed to him by a child Th