“Song of Myself” is everyone, and everything. It attempts to unify America, landscape, men, women, ordinary people, life, death, religion, everything, and all things. The self can be defined as the “American Adam”. Whitman viewed his poetry as being experimental because he saw America as being experimental. No one knew if it was going to work. Whitman forever alters Transadentalism and Romanists because it will become more realistic. Whitman directly influences 20th century American poetry.

Whitman was somewhat at the center of Transadentalist. There is some evidence that Whitman was at a lecture in 1842 where he heard Emerson’s speech “the Poet” in New York. Whitman’s book will be organic; it will grow and change from edition to edition. There will be eight editions from 1855 to 1892 with each one being different from the others. Whitman uses much symbolism in the title in which he uses leaves to represent pages as life continues to grow there is more pages added to it, and grass is symbolic for life itself because it is always growing. Whitman will also be kn

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Emerson America, York Whitman’s, York Yorker, Dept Treasury, Poet” Whitman, Civil War, Leaves Grass”book, Adam” Whitman, Transadentalism Romanists, Walt Whitman, “the poet”, twenty life, ordinary people, 20th century, civil war,