Summary: Whitman explores the continuum to which things exist. We are all on a road alone but simultaneously together; it is a place that no one can plan for you. You must take it as it comes. Walt Whitman sets us up to either begin or continue this journey with a new and open mind. He talks about questioning and how it's normal, but that he can’t give answers. We must seek. When we grow weary and tired, he will be there and one day we will return the favor (he is immortal after all.) He develops an understanding of his transcendence into everything.
Commentary: "If you would understand me go to the heights or water-shore, the nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key..." I love how he is able to find answers in things normally overlooked. He's able to find a puzzle in his life’s journey within the blades of wet grass or the irises of a little girl or blood from a gazelle carcass. It's remarkable, honestly. And although he claims teaching, "I am the teacher of athletes." I feel he challenges us to think for ourselves. Not necessarily "teaching" us how to do it, but more showing us. But then again he does say, “I teach straying away from me, yet who can stray from me."
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