How do you like this analysis of the first few verses of a “song to myself” by Walt Whitman I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. (This feels like a moment of realization, he has had a taste of enlightenment and he knows that this feeling is or will be very similar for all other humans once they realize this too, hence the assume part. He has just understood that life is a celebration of self for it is the self that has allowed such a grand experience to occur here on Earth in his physical body) I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass ( The soul and the human parts of Walt unite to truly enjoy this new feeling of being truly alive, truly aware and awake for the very first time) My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. ( He understand that this grand expanded experience he is having, is in huge part due to his humanity and all the basic components that create biological life. He is observing that his ancestors most likely did not get to have this grand experience he is having, but it was through their intent to procreate and create a lineage that he is now able to be experiencing such a grand realization. He is in honor of them, yet quickly shifts his awareness to the fact that he is 37 and just had this great experience of awakening in perfect health. He is hoping he can now enjoy the rest o his life with this new way of being and perceiving until his time of departure from physical form) I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. ( From this space he understands that there is no good or bad, just experiences people have in life. All the experiences in life are intended to point you to the recognition of yourself. He can see this clearly from the state he is currently in, this being the “original energy”.) Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. ( Here in this open and aware state, he is sensitive to the energies around him, he can feel so much “houses and rooms are full of perfumes” he feels overwhelmed, “The shelves are crowded with perfumes” which can be a bit uncomfortable going from a state where one is only aware of life from a limited perception to an expanded state where one feels and see it all very up close and personal even the most subtle layers. ) “I breathe the fragrance myself and I know it and like it” (He allows in him and around him all the energetic confusions and overwhelm that his is feeling including what is coming from other humans and mass consciousness. He knows to let it in, as it is part of life, the life his knows, the life that has granted him this moment of pure awareness). “The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it” (He can choose to go back to a more distilled state, a place where these energies don’t overwhelm, a space where most other humans usually reside, disconnected from such grand awareness but he knows after having had this experience, going back would kill him. Instead, he is choosing the courage to stay in this state of awareness, even though there is some things that are uncomfortable, he is trusting he can learn to flow with it.) “The smoke of my own breath, Echoes, ripples, buzzd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine, My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs, The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-colord sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belchd words of my voice loosd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag, The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides, The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.” (Here is basically describing the sensual experience that life becomes in that state of pure sensitivity and awareness) “Have you reckond a thousand acres much? have you reckond the earth much? Have you practisd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? ( Here is telling the readers to stop looking for meaning in books and outside of themselves, to give it up because what he is offering cannot be found in traditional ways that make people proud such as achievements.) “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,” (In this part he is inviting the reader to have his/her own enlightenment realization so they too can posses the origin of all poems or have access to all the wisdom and awareness there is to be had. “You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are,..millions of suns left,)” (He is dealing with the fact that many people due to human conditioning feel there is a scarcity issue so he is reminding them, hey you can have all this experience, all this awareness and it is infinite and unlimited for everyone. You cant have more enlightenment or take more enlightenment than someone else)
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 22:25:11 +0000
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