Society

      Canto 15 in Walter Whitman’s “Song of Myself” pertains to the daily lives of people within a society. Whitman writes of everyone—from machinists to presidents—as equals, which gives insight into his perspective on the world. The way in which the author speaks of each person going about their activities, no matter how important a reader may think a particular job may be, shows that everyone contributes to society, and that every person that participates in a society depend on each other, so matter how important or unimportant their activities may seem. the author shows this of co-dependence and equality when he says, “and such as it is to be of these more or less I am.” In this quote, Whitman states that he is more or less just like every other person within society, no matter how menial or prestigious they may appear to others.


Author: Patrick Pacheco