The Texture of the Sixth Poem of Song of Myself :: Song of Myself Essays

The Texture of the Sixth poesy of phone call of Myself   In number six of Whitmans poetic series Song of Myself, it seems that he is trying to convey the microscope stage that to sink is not what populate make it out to be. Whitman throughout many of the poems in this series, describes finale as lucky and beneficial. He also explains how death leads to the beginning of life in this poem. The tone at the very beginning of this poem seems a bit youthful. Especially when the question What is grass? is posed to him by a boor. This initiation line gives you a great mental picture of a child about the age of five or six, walking up and communicate innocently a question that you cannot answer. By using the line, fetching it to me with proficient/ hands Whitman gives you that image right from the beginning. From there he goes into this sort of naïve tone, guessing what grass means. By doing so he shows himself to be soulfulness and not all-knowing.   During this tim e in the poem, he gives beautiful metaphorical imagery, equivalence the grass to other things and illustrating a better idea of what the grass is. excessively during this speculation period, the wording becomes denser, as the ideas become complex. Whitman moves from the single-lined childish voice, into the adult ramification of the poem. Here, he becomes surer of what the grass is and does less guessing. Around line 101, Whitman starts toward the turning point in the essay, describing the death aspect of the grass. Words like dark trade the mood of the poem to a slower, sadder state. At line 110, the poem takes a sudden change and reads much quicker. It changes into a kind of argument and Whitman speaks to a greater extent affirmatively. Now it seems as if he has been enlightened and understands what the grass is. The feeling of death changes to life and darkness changes to light.   In a subtle way, he gives the ratifier a feeling of lightness and life, because in the las t four lines he begins all of the lines with As and as you read it you get that choral Hallelujah feeling. Whitman shows you the light. He tells you why death is a good thing. There is no more fear. To die is different from what any one supposed, and/luckier.