Song Of Myself cont'd...
I have read Walt Whitman's written works in the past and I believe he has definitely earned the right to be called the Great American Poet for a good reason. Whitman has a gift of being able to observe and expose the everyday life of not just one type of American but every American, of all walks of life. He has written about just about every kind of American and their everday tasks therefore probing readers to see themselves in his written works. I think that of the many messages that Whitman wants to have come across is that we are all the same. In "Song of Myself" Whitman opens the poem by saying "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Right here, I think that Whitman is alluding to the fact that we are all made up of the same matter. Also, despite all of our physical differences, we overall share the same internal organs, as well as the same hopes, dreams and fears.