The incredible Walt Whitman was a man with many talents. One of these talents being that he could see the world in a view that very few of us could comprehend. He saw the world for what it was and what it could be, nevertheless he saw people for who we are and what we could be. In many people"s opinion the world has never seen a more talented and dynamic writer. In leaves of grass Whitman begins with his physical poetry, and then proceeds to his spiritual side, and concludes with a spiritual resurrection. Even though his poetry might be hard to read once it is understood, his ideas fall into place. Once these ideas fall into place we the reader get a sense that there is so much more out there to look at. As we look at the way Whitman analyzes and theorizes life it makes us think about the bigger picture of life and ignore all the small things that surround us. .

             It is obvious after reading "Leaves Of Grass" that this is a collection of poems that are written according to Whitman"s life. The first part of the collection deals with the physical side of Whitman"s ideology of life and of humans. One of Whitman"s fundamental ideas was the doctrine of "identity", which seems to mean to him is the uniting of two animals to reproduce. Whitman says, "the soul of the universe is the male and genital master and the impregnating and animating spirit-Physical matter is Female and Mother and waits barren and bloomless, the jets of life from the masculine vigor." (The Roots of Whitman"s Grass pg.134) Here we see an example of Whitman talking about reproduction between a man and a woman. This is obvious an example of physical sexual relations in which Whitman often talked about in "Leaves of Grass," but his favorite subject to talk about was nature. Many of his poems deal with his ideas of nature and how it relates to us. Take these lines off of poem number twenty-two from song of myself:.