![]() ![]() ![]() He can enjoy each of the five senses - tasting, hearing, smelling, touching, and seeing-and even more - the process of breathing, the beating of his heart, and "the feeling of health." He invites the reader to "stop this day and night" with him in order to discover "the origin of all poems." He is enthralled by the ecstasy of his physical sensations. The poet expresses the joy he feels through his senses. The poet is tempted to let himself be submerged by other individual selves, but he is determined to maintain his individuality. "Perfumes" are symbols of other individual selves but outdoors, the earth's atmosphere denotes the universal self. "Houses and rooms are full of perfume," Whitman says. In section 2, the self, asserting its identity, declares its separateness from civilization and its closeness to nature. He will let nature speak without check with original energy." He is thirtyseven years old and "in perfect health." He hopes to continue his celebration of self until his death. He relates that he was "form'd from this soil," for he was born here, as were his parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. The poet will "sing myself," but "what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." The poet loafs on the grass and invites his soul to appear. This poem celebrates the poet's self, but, while the "I" is the poet himself, it is, at the same time, universalized. Whitman: The Quintessential American Poet.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?. ![]()
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