In section twenty four of “Song of Myself” Walt Whitman describes the relationship he has with everything else in this world. Whitman’s description reflects his beliefs about radical equality and the love of nature. He does this by using a few different poetic devices. When reading this section it seems that Whitman is extremely vain, but he prepares the reader for this in the first stanza. He explains that he is just the same …showed first 75 words of 534 total…

…showed last 75 words of 534 total…He uses epistrophe in this stanza to stress the words “it shall be you.” In line forty-nine Whitman says that he would prefer a morning-glory to books to emphasize the superiority of nature over man-made things. The following stanzas continue to glorify all kinds of nature and how it is a part of him. Whitman clearly feels that nature is an incredible thing that touches everyone and should be recognized as all powerful by all.