Topic 4: how does Whitman use grass as a universal symbol? (Use sections 6 and 52).
In common, people do not care about grass. They think that grass is not important. People love beautiful flowers, in stead. Some hates its appearance, and try to cut it away. However, they may change their mind if they read “Song of Myself” of Whitman. In his unite poem, grass is described as a universal symbol. Grass is not discriminated; grass is eternal, and most importantly, grass is love.
Firstly, grass is universal. The first place that Whitman mentioned grass in his poem is section 6: “A child said, What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands, / How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more the he”(1,2). Firstly I think
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