In section 48 he touches most on his greatest ideas of all, as he says "And I say unto mankind, be not curious of each, and not curious of God" (whitman 48 ). He then says “I feel and see God in every object” (whitman 48). In Walt Whitman's mind he thinks that in every single place in the world where God is found, in Whitman's mind he opens his eyes and looks around and where he finds God in every element of being. In section 51 he says "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)(whitman 51) he returns to the idea that he is literally speaking for all of us and for all of us and for all human and earthly experience and if it seems like he is contradicting himself then that is exactly what he is supposed to do because in reality there are many contradictions and in the final section he says “I bequeath myself to the earth to grow from the grass I love, if you still want me look for me under the soles of the your boots (whitman 52). which is an interesting thing because most people won't be humble enough to get the idea that you should look under the sole of a boot for someone and then say I miss you in one place, look in another. , I'll stop somewhere waiting for you. It's profoundly beautiful this idea in this long poem, a revised song of mine, edited and changed over the course of a lifetime, speaks to so many different cosmic issues and so many possibilities in the idea that if let's go to the world
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