Grass Grows

Grass Grows          In his book, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman describes his connection with nature and the environment that surrounds him. He overly emphasises how he can empathize with everyone by claiming that he is donation of everyone and everyone is a part of him. Whitman overly presents the idea of everlastingity and how it is attained. Whitman describes flock as something of a supernatural essence, as products of death, and as leaves, or pages, of a book, to emphasize the sense that cop pay offs immortality.

        One of Whitmans most recognisable talents is the ability to establish a connection in the midst of something scurvy and something vast. Whitman does this several times with bewray. ¦I guess [ stag] is the handkerchief of the Lord,/A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,/ Bearing the owners name someway in the corners, that we may see/ and remark, and say Whose (29). Whitman takes the reader from a blade of grass to God, the creator. God created the Earth and when He did, he left proof that He created the Earth by leave his signature; grass. Whitman also describes the grass as children. ¦[T]he grass is itself a child¦.the produced babe of the/vegetation (29). Mother Earth yields grass, or, in this case, children. Once once more, Whitman makes the readers mind travel from a blade of grass, to the lawsuit of the Earth. The greatest of all transitions from small to vast is the connection Whitman establishes between the grass and stars. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars (55). Within a line, Whitman succeeds in woful from a small, rather insignificant object, to a grand one. Whitman brings grass to the same level as the Earth, the stars, and even God, all of which represent some degree of immortality, thus resolving that grass represents immortality.

        As well as using a magnifying technique, Whitman also gives grass a sense of immortality by using morbid descriptions that also deal with the life cycle that includes death. For example, when people die, their corpses provide nutrients to the alter , which can then yield grass. Another example of his subroutine of a cycle is when he talks about the counterpunch of life after death. The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,/And if there ever was it led forward to life, and does not forbear at the/end to arrest it,/And ceased the moment life disappeared (30). Again, Whitman emphasizes the immortality of grass, as it springs from death in sprouts and new forms of life in a never-ending cycle.

        As well as describing grass to emphasize an immortal cycle of life and death, Whitman also describes grass as a collection of mans thoughts.



These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands¦[t]his is the grass that grows wherever the land is and water is¦ (41). The leaves of grass are the leaves of books which carry mans voice and allow man to brook forever among the pages. Whitman also takes it to a personal level. I entrust myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,/If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles (86). Again, he emphasizes the life and death cycle. He becomes the corpse in the Earth that provides the nourishment for the grass. He becomes immortal because he becomes part of the grass; part of nature. He lives on in the leaves of his book. By way of the leaves of grass, Whitman becomes immortal.

        Grass, the product of death, the leaves of a book, gives Whitman a way to ensure his immortality. By writing on pages, he leaves his voice to live on forever in his writing. His becomes imprisoned by the Earth from whence it originated (according to the Bible; ashes to ashes, carcass to dust) to yield fresh life in the form of grass. Walt Whitman succeeded, as he is immortal in Leaves of Grass.

                 

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