O Me O Life By Walt Whitman

In the poem O Me! O Life! Written by Walt Whitman, he questions his own existence. He talks about the cities of foolish people talking about the long list of people who betray his expectations “endless trains of the faithless”. Then Whitman goes on to say that he isn’t any better than the trains of the faithless “for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?” At the end of the poem he answers the question of existence. His was “That you are here—that life exists and identity, / That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.” In this quote he is saying that you are here for a reason and life goes on, you need to do something with your life. The whole reason he was asking the question of existence was because when this