Song Of Myself By Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s influence on American literature is enormous. His poetry expresses the most revolutionary aspiration of his era; he is truly defender, his mission is to promote democracy, he heralds the new period, where the triumph of the brotherhood takes people’s mind. Walt Whitman’s mission not only to promote the harmony between people, but also people’s soul and body. Whitman’s poetry is confessional and frank; he is trying to overcome the distance between reality and its representation in poetry. Everything the poet observes has the right to be poetry because all these manifestations of life, the images in his poetry are presented not only in humans but also into the phenomena of natures, as there are no barriers between natural life and the circle of human existence.
The poem doesn’t have plot itself, as Walt Whitman presents the unity of his “I”, as the hero of the poem, with the people he meets and with life itself. Lines from the part 15 of the poem fully demonstrate it: “The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time/The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;/And these tend to inward to me, and I tend to outward to them,/ And such as it is to be of these more or less I am”(C34).
In Walt Whitman’s eyes, people’s soul and physical body should be in harmony. He believes that equality of people’s soul and body are significant, and with lack of it the person could not be completely healthy. The following line proves the author’s idea: “Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is not my