For my project I wrote a poem that was inspired by Walt Whitman’s, “Song of Myself”. It used similar connections to nature and ideas about death. In both Whitman and mine, a big overlying idea is that death is natural, inevitable, and that it is not an end but a cycle that has existed before the life of an individual and will continue to go on long after they have gone. The transcendentalist principle that I connect with the most is idea of seeking truth through “solitude, reflection, and self-examination”…
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