A Strong Emmersonian Tone In Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself

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Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself has a strong Emmersonian tone; Whitman deliberates on one’s connection with nature, both internally and physically. Whitman interchanges the physical and metaphysical, ‘The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place, / The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place’, this is representative of the body and the soul, what he witnesses sensually as well as the experience internally. Whitman proclaims that his musings ‘are the thoughts for all men in all ages and lands’, his thoughts have a unifying tone; they unite him with all men who have ever pondered their existence. Song of Myself is a song not of Whitman, but the reader, all mankind.
The repetition of ‘If they’ reinforces the importance