Song of Myself

Walt Whitman was one of the very first of his time to move from using rhyme to free verse within poetry. He used rhythm instead of language and he was ahead of his time people have said. This was truly amazing because he was the very first to use this style of free verse that was not very popular in the 1800's but is popular today. And within his poem, Song of Myself he used his style of free verse.
Within the first section of Song of Myself, Whitman is talking of celebrating himself and how it seems to be focusing on only him. Praising himself within the entire section. But as you keep reading through the section it shows that he really does care about the entire country and not just himself. Through this section he is also describing that nothing is ever really destroyed and it lives on forever. Which in a way is like the old romantics from last semester but now Whitman is starting into the new age of realism.
From the selection on the syllabus I read section 6, and from this section it shows how Whitman writes on the equality of all of those in the United States. In this section it starts off with a child asking "what is the grass?" Whitman at first does not realize what it was but as he thought more about it in the section he concluded that the grass he is asking about is the United States, and from this Whitman is hitting on the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. And through the grass everything is interconnected and that when we die we do not really die but are transformed into another being to benefit the world around us.