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Works of Walt Whitman: Song Of Myself: Sections 17 - 38
From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Whitman, Walt
Whitman, Walt
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Song Of Myself: Sections 17 - 38
Section 17.
A pause of transition and contemplation occurs in Section 17. The poet
remarks upon the eternal quality in all that he has experienced:
These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not
original with me, . . .
Whitman then returns to the symbol of the mystical grass and couples it
with an element equally as diffuse and endless:
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This is the common air that bathes the globe.
Repeatedly, Whitman weaves into his ...
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