"Song of Myself"

I really enjoyed this poem, Walt Whitman is one of my favorite writers. I especially take this poem to heart because like any song I believe it is an expression, and it is about himself, and I feel as though when I read it, that it connects to me, it is a celebration of his life and how he feels in his prime and this is how i feel right now in my life, I am at a crossroads and this summer is an oppurtunity to cease what could be one of my last summers where I can just cease it and not worry about co-ops or full time jobs. This poem to me as an epic of one's self, and sometimes the best way to explore one's self or to even write poetry is to sit back and watch with the minds eye the comings and goings of thoughts like ships at sea, some quickly come and go, others linger, some are prominant, some are rare, these thoughts that run through one's mind and the writing of them allows for a deeper more natural poem almost as if the way we were meant to speak naturally was the way our mind speaks, but our tongues can not keep up with it so they have a hard time deciding what is important to say and what is better left unsaid, and when emotion takes over it can almost be impossible to find any words at all or to stop one's self from getting carried away with words. This poem, though most say a picture is worth a thousand words, paints images in itself and allows the reader, even those who may otherwise not be able to invision the imagery within the text, the trip through a colorful vivd world.