Song Of Myself By Whitman
If I could live each day feeling as Walt Whitman feels in his first section of Song of Myself, I would be a much happier person. His lyrics are so cheerful and optimistic that you can't help but feel better about life in general as you read on. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself;" his opening line summarizes his dominating theme for the rest of the poem, which is to be yourself and love every atom of that being. Another important theme of the poem brought up in section 1 is "hoping to cease not till death." Whitman demands that he doesn't give up on living until living itself has given up on him, and he once again returns to the nature which he was born out of.
Section 4 is one of my favorites because of its lyrical beauty, but it also has an incredible message of itself in this poem. "These come to me days and nights and go from me again, but they are not the Me myself." Whitman lists all the things in the world that we live with every single day, things that influence and......
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