In "Song of Myself", Walt Whitman simultaneously.

             Integrates the concept of himself as an individual,.

             Completely unique in the universe, with a sense of himself.

             as a composite of all life, of a kind of "divine watcher".

             who floats over the surface of humanity, observing the.

             essential oneness of everyone within the context of their.

             own myriad individualities. He explicates this through many analogies, but one of his most powerful is through his.

             comparison of himself to the grass that still covered most.

             of nineteenth-century America. In this analogy, he manages.

             to convey not only his identity with the community of life,.

             but his eventual participation in the company of the dead.