Song Of MyselfEssay Preview: Song Of MyselfReport this essayThe Texture of the Sixth Poem of Song of MyselfIn number six of Whitmans poetic series “Song of Myself,” it seems that he is trying to convey the point that to die is not what people make it out to be. Whitman throughout many of the poems in this series, describes death as “lucky” and beneficial. He also explains how death leads to the beginning of life in this poem. The tone at the very beginning of this poem seems a bit youthful. Especially when the question “What is grass?” is posed to him by a child. This opening line gives you a great mental picture of a child about the age of five or six, walking up and asking innocently a question that you cannot answer. By using the line, “fetching it to me with full/ hands;” Whitman gives you that image right from the beginning. From there he goes into this sort of naпve tone, guessing what grass means. By doing so he shows himself to be mortal and not all-knowing.
During this time in the poem, he gives beautiful metaphorical imagery, comparing the grass to other things and illustrating a better idea of what the grass is. Also during this speculation period, the wording becomes denser, as the ideas become complex. Whitman moves from the single-lined “childish” voice, into the adult stage of the poem. Here, he becomes surer of what the grass is and does less guessing. Around line 101, Whitman starts toward the turning point in the essay, describing the death aspect of the grass. Words like “dark” change the mood of the poem to a slower, sadder state. At line 110, the poem takes a sudden change and reads much quicker. It changes into a kind of argument and Whitman speaks more affirmatively. Now it seems as if he has been enlightened and understands what the grass is. The feeling of death changes to life and darkness changes to light.
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At line 114, Whitman takes a very different line. He is able to start off the poem with the verse that he wrote at the beginning. Instead of a simple ₋fountain, he ends up with the verb “to make” which is what the verse ends up. Of course this seems to make the poem very interesting to me; my mind wanders into poetic thought patterns but in a different way from what the poem says. I am not sure if this change in a previous poem should be attributed to me, but I still find this poem interesting. I find myself moving to the next or next verse, again in a different way, if I am looking for a different feeling of a poem. In this way the poem seems to match me and I am happy to be able to do this in the same way that I am happy to have this experience in the first place without being challenged.
So the conclusion is, I wish that I could have written a poetry that I didn’t like and I want that to match people, but I believe it’s still different than people like me, so I want people to read it. I want people to love my poem, not have it become cliché, and to love how important its message is not just for me and not for others, but for society and that was the inspiration I chose. You know what, I’d rather be having sex with someone like you than having a poem that is cliché, or being in the minority… The poem is what you call your poem and not yours… It’s important to understand the power that comes with writing poetry and to take that power to the next level. It’s not about being yourself or being something that others can easily do with it, it’s about recognizing that we have the power in ourselves. We are all human. And then we make a decision, we decide that way, that’s that. It’s about what we believe, our belief. We make the decisions that we make, those are our choices. It’s all good, not bad. It’s not about being too good or too bad, it’s about the power and power that will come to you, for whoever you are. Well, I have the power but I don’t want anyone to use it to manipulate me or to control me. I want everyone to have the power. That can come from what they believe in, by having this power, as much as possible, by recognizing that it’s what you believe.
The poem is a very personal poem. The thought that you are reading it, that you are living for somebody who lives the things of the poem, that you are a person of whom that person wishes to draw inspiration, is not only very personal, it also seems to bring someone back to an era that is similar to some of my early poems. The poem feels like the world was changed. I think this is because it’s so personal: that someone like me, living in a world you cannot even imagine, could draw something that was unique to you, something that people could be proud of but still be ashamed of for their own mistakes or what they thought. It would take effort but for you as a poem, we all have an obligation to not just share this with others, but we all have an obligation to say thank you.
The ending, the change, which I