“Song of Myself" is poem by Walt Whitman, the author of Leaves of Grass created a unique and new American poetic voice. Another Author who shared his poetic structure was Emily Dickinson.
Walt Whitman was born on May 31st 1819 in West Hills, New York, the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. He and his eight brothers lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s.
The first job that Whitman had was as a printer in New York City. In 1836, at the age of seventeen, he began his career as teacher in Long Island. He continued to teach until 1841.
The poem is written in Whitman's signature free verse style. Whitman, who prefers words "as simple as grass" sacrifices standard verse and stanza patterns in favor of a simple, legible style that can appeal to a mass audience.
The theme in Whitman's "song of myself" is:
identity
