Part IIV (Pgs; 48-52)

Summary: He continues on the overlying theme of one’s equality with God, the earth, the dirt, the wonders of the world, the dead, and the living. He talks about God being in everything and him in everything also. He is at peace with God and himself; he is comfortable in his lack of understanding. He discusses the relation between life and death. To him, they are interchangeable He then enters this place where he is not clear about what exactly "it" is but that 'it" is bigger than we can understand. He encourages us to move forward with him but apart from him. He will wait for us.

Commentary: "Do you not see it O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death-- it is form, union, plan-- it is eternal life--it is happiness..." Whatever "it" is, it seems to be a fluid substance, I imagine "it" is whatever we need "it:" to be. It's our happiness, its love, its peace, its happiness, and joy, and sorrow, and everything good that exists. This poem was a journey through Walt Whitman and, eerily, us too. "I stop somewhere waiting for you." He as triggered the wheels of our mind to begin to turn and explore who we really are. It makes sense that he'd rather us be, "wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear." That makes perfect sense to me.