The Essential Spirit Of “Song Of Myself”

The Essential Spirit Of “Song Of Myself” “Song of Myself”,1346 lines, is the longest and most personal poem of Whitman. It is the representative poem in his only poetry collection “Leaves of Grass” .Grass, the most common one in the universal, living at anywhere and anytime, also has its soul—the essential of Whitman’s thought. The grass, as the cycle of the planet, has its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The “Song of Myself” records his growth of the body and the spirit. It represents the general spirits of the “Leaves of Grass”.