What does I celebrate myself and sing myself and what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you mean?

“I celebrate myself and what I assume you shall assume for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” I read this as a man speaking with or about god. I understood it to mean that when man has a bad day they assume that god has it out for them and so god assumes an emotion because the man believes it to be.

What is the meaning of Leaves of Grass?

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. The collection of loosely-connected poems represents the celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity, and praises nature and the individual human’s role in it.

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born?

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

What does Loafe mean?

Archaic spelling of the word “loaf”. It means to laze about aimlessly, possibly with a sinister intent. “He is just a shiftless loafer.” I really do like words shiftless and loafe/loaf together.

What is Whitman?

Walter Whitman (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. Later, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, and a government clerk. Whitman’s major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money and became well known.

What is the relationship between the individual self and universal self according to Walt Whitman?

To Whitman, the self is both individual and universal. Man has an individual self, whereas the world has a universal self. The poet wishes to maintain the identity of his individual self-aiming a mystical union with God, the Absolute self. Sexual union, to the poet, is a figurative anticipation of spiritual union.

What does the first stanza of Song of Myself mean?

Whitman begins the poem by asserting the idea of self and its identification with all selves, and its identification with all selves and emphasizing his belief in the interrelationship of all beings and all matter. This is the first indication of its theme of unity of all life and nature the inherent transcendence.

What does the Phantom in as I ponder in silence represent?

As the poet meditated on his poetry, a phantom, beautiful but terrible, the muse of ancient poets, appeared before him. The spirit asked him about the themes of his poetry and asserted that it is “the theme of War, the fortune of battles,/The making of perfect soldiers,” which are the proper themes for poets.

What does Whitman mean by what I assume you shall assume?

There is nothing in this stanza to suggest that Whitman is talking about problems or burdens, which might necessitate the French endosser. Rather, the meaning of this line is: “what I understand, you shall understand; what I believe, you shall believe; what is true for me shall be true for you.”