Song+of+Myself+(Section+2)

In this section of the Song of Myself, the narrator (as described by Walt Whitman) says in the first stanza, "I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it." In these two lines i think the //fragrance of himsef// that he is decribing is his personality and what he thinks about himself and that he likes the way he is. He is confident with himself. He also says that the fragrance would //intoxicate him// but that he would not let it. In this i think the narrator is trying to say that even though he likes himself he will not become overconfident and arrogant in his ways.

In the next stanza he again describes the natural earth. The //fragrance// of the natural world is wonderful and pure. It is cleansed and will always be. The narrator describes his love for the cleaness of the earth.

The narrator then responds to the natrual earth's fragrances and shows how they make him feel. "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," and "The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun," are three ways that the narrator cominicates the cleanliness of the earth's fragrance.

At the end of this section, the narrator says that everyone should filter themselves and apprectiate the wonderful nature of our world.1200327377