Much of this poem can be viewed as an attempt to answer a child's question that gets asked in its 6th Section: "What is the grass?"
In the 37th section of this poem, the poet connects himself to mutineers and cholera patients before stating, "I pro- ject my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg." The 52nd and final section refers to a "barbaric yawp" and states that the writer can be found "under your boot-soles." The first section in the original version states that the poet is thirty-seven years old, but the title this work is best-known by was not used until 1881, when the poet was sixty-two. Much of this poem can be viewed as an attempt to answer a child's question that gets asked in its 6th Section: "What is the grass?" Name this work containing the line, "I am large, I contain multitudes," originally titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an Ameri- can".
In the 37th section of this poem, the poet connects himself to mutineers and cholera patients before stating, "I pro- ject my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg."
“{Song} of {Myself}” [accept “{Poem} of {Walt Whitman}, an {American}” before “{Walt}”]