... paved a patch that many others would follow, intentionally or not. Walt Whitman, In part 5 of "Song of Myself", analyzes his inner-self while revealing many aspects of transcendentalism in his poetry. In the poem, Whitman shows self-reliance in the line "I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you". This line shows that he has ... shown to be binding, and limitless. This contradicts transcendentalism, which holds that one is in utter control of how strongly feelings and events affect the person. In agreement with my analysis, Scott Durphey said, [Whitman is] "r...

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