Critical Analysis Of Song Of Myself

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Section 6 of Song of Myself shows Walt Whitman’s philosophy in many ways. It’s a pivotal turning point in the poem because it brings up new ideas and questions to the reader. A child appears with hands full of grass and asks “What is grass?” At first Whitman goes through some ideas of what grass could be. “I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.” He’s not really sure what it is, but he continues on with different ideas. When he muses that the grass “…is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white…I give them the same, I receive them the same,” he seems to be saying that
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