Throughout the third section of “Song of Myself,” there are three main ideas that Whitman indulges in. His examination of religion, offspring, and the human body formulate the concepts of self-love and eccentricity.
To elaborate Whitman’s first claim, the reader has to delve into his words and read outside of the lines. As he states, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,_/ But I do not talk of the beginning or the end” (934). In this first stanza of the section, it is apparent that Whitman is not a man of religion, and he baffles at the extensive time spent believing in the unproven afterlife. Instead of worrying about the past or future, he believes people should focus on the present. Whitman portrays
