"Song of Myself" Part I (Pgs: 1-15)

Summary: The poem "Song of Myself" starts off explaining who Walt Whitman is. He talks about his connection to every person and everything that ever was and has ever been and how we are all connected. With all of that he talks about his oneness with nature and how unlimited he and nature are. He talks about the murder/suicide of a mother and her baby, hunting, helping a runaway slave, and witnessing a Native American marriage. At the end of this section Whitman portrays the perspective of a woman observing twenty-eight young men bathing and her desire to observe them.

Commentary: At first, this poem seemed like it was going to be spacey and boring, but as I kept reading likes such as, "Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." caught my attention. His perspective on life was strangely optimistic. He seemed to be at peace with everything and himself...he seems to be in love with the beauty of his existence and all that that entails...it's beautiful really. "I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait."