From the selections of Walt Whitman's Songs of Myself, I choose to focus on section twenty-six. After reading that section two to three times, I think I finally understand what he's trying to convey through his poetry.
Throughout section twenty-six, there are a lot of juxtapositions. Like for example, on the first line it states, "I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise." Whitman talks about himself a lot within this section, where he would mention things that could be convey as him being a unity of all of these contradicting traits. He says that he's experienced, but is still willing to experience more, and this can be read within lines ten through eleven. Whitman also talks about America and other countries, and how unity is they key. This can be read within the lies six through thirteen.
Overall, Whitman stresses the idea and the importance of unity and, diversity, and rejects society's oppression by accepting a sense of equality for all. Then he ends it by using parallelism to convey the message that everyone and everything has its own place in Earth.
Oh and the picture above just shows how everything there is different, but it has it's own place, and looking at it all together(unified) it's beautiful.
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