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Athraa Alhusseini
Golda Fried
ENG 232
22 January 2017
“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
“Song of Myself” is a poem written by Walt Whitman to celebrates his self that includes 52 sections. “Song of Myself” is not a poem with a clear idea or point view, it has different concepts that repeat many times in all the poem. Walt Whitman describes many ideas, images, and symbolic throughout his poem. He has written his poem based on his experiences during life. Through these experiences, he knows a lot of important things that want to pass them to people. Throughout his knowledge about life, many themes have been showed in this poem, and the most recognizable sections include the ideas of identity, friendship, spirituality, and sex.
One of the experiences Whitman shared is a friendship as a nature part of life. He is the poet of friendship as an essential ingredient for equality. In "Song of Myself," Whitman speeches the reader as a close friend, he wants to create a friendship to everyone he meets, where he confirms the positive connection as a relationship between all people. As he depicted in his poem, "I celebrate myself and …show more content…

Throughout the poem, Whitman describes sex as a natural part of every person life. As he states in his poem, "I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me"(24). In this section, Whitman clearly describes sexual desire, but he does not discuss specific acts of sex. He also describes sex as a sensual feeling is part of life which makes life more enjoyable. As he depicted in his poem, “How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me, and parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-strip heart"(27). He describes sexuality as an element that makes soul sensory and leads to creates the desire relation to sex, which he values as the synthesis of body and

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