Expressing Your Feelings

I have always loved poems, I have loved the way by which you can express your feeling and emotions through it. I have loved the way you can make them sound however you please, add any rhythm to it if you want to. They have no boundaries. They are a way of self expression. Through poems you can transmit all sorts of feelings such as: happiness, sadness, disappointments and more. Through poems you can also express and tell moments in your life, describe people around you and many more.

In Walt Whitman’s book of poems: Leaves of Grass, in his first poem he uses a lot of feeling description. Starting by his first sentence: “I CELEBRATE myself;” I can clearly see that he is expressing a proud feeling type. Proud towards something that he has accomplished. Then as I continue to read through I found that he talks about sharing, and about being responsible for each other. When he says: “And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.” By now the first stanza is over and so far he has proven my love for poems, which is the way than one can express our feeling through them. Walt then starts talking about loafing himself, showing the opposite feeling as before, as disappointment. He keeps on using expressing words to describe himself in that precise time lapse of his life some of these words include: “mad, love, loafe, undisguised”.

After all I really liked the way in which Walt Whitman through his poems tries to let some of him to the world. Expresses what he feels, and what he has lived. “Backward I see my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders; I have no mocking or arguments-I witness and wait” (Poem 4)