While reading this poem by Walt Whitman, I went back and forth trying to figure out who or what the speaker was. I wanted to read the poem before I read the break down of it and Walt Whitmans work on the pages before. I got a view different vibes as to who the speaker might be and what this poem was truely about. I felt, at first, that this might be an insane asylum or an inmate of some kind because of their thought process throughout the whole thing
. "Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and i know it"(pg.983). Then for a breif moment I thought the speaker could be a higher power of some sort. "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, i call to the earth and sea half-held by the night"(pg.984). At the end, I came to the conclusion that HE was a middle aged gentlemen and was a very genuine person, very true at heart in what he believed or didnt believe in. He possibly was even waiting on or looking for a long lost lover? Besides being confused at the flip flop of the speaker, I really did enjoy this poem. It was almost as if it were different stories within the same story.
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