Song Of Myself
This past week our class read Walt Whitman's long poem entitled, "Song Of Myself". In "Song Of Myself" Whitman reveals a lot of what I considered a part of who he his. Pretty much all of the poem was an okay read, however the section that I couldn't keep my eyes off of was the part in which a woman was spying on these twenty-eight naked males bathing in the water. Now since I took this poem as a reflection of Walt Whitman. I thought that by him including this section inside of his poem it was a way for him to reveal his attraction to the same sex without being too forward. In this section of the poem I believe that the only purpose Whitman had the woman act as an onlooker of the naked bathing men was for her to be a smoke screen in order to excuse his graphic description of the naked bathing men. As this section of the poem continues to progress, I began to loose sight of the woman onlooker because she is no longer mentioned about half-way through the section of the twenty-eight male bathers. Half-way into that section the woman all of a sudden dissapears (even though she is still supposedly there) and Whitman then takes this time to go into graphic detail of the description of the naked bathing males.