Transcendentalism In Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself
Walt Whitman in ¨A Song Of Myself ¨, Leaves of Grass, states that all individuals are the same, because the same matter composes all people. Whitman authored his poem during the industrial revolution when the individuals felt that they meant less to society because more anonymity exists. Firstly, the poet emphasizes that ¨for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you¨ (ll. 3). This demonstrates that all beings in the universe are bonded together, so Whitman uses words such as atom belonging to me, and ¨good belonging to you,¨ to describe democracy binds everyone and everything on a basic level of existence. Whitman feels that people had little power in society so they came up with a new thinking called transcendentalism which believes