Whitman day...

Whitman's prose seems too much like his poetry.  He uses many of the same poetic devices, only it's within his paragraphs and sentences.  Why write your prose like poetry, why not just write poetry?

Favorite line from Leaves of Grass, "I know perfectly well my own egotism," (76).  I think Whitman has a hard time separating his narrator from himself.

On pages 60-61, Whitman begins almost every line with "Where;" the use of tis seems to draw people together.  However, in the middle of his "Where" statements are interrupted for a handful of stanzas.  Whitman still uses new locations, but I feel it is important to note that these are not "Where" statements... What is different about these statements?  I admit I'm not sure, but it requires further investigation.  Also, on pg. 60, he mentions "the press" which I believe is his only relation to writers; and it is only the workers in a factory - not real writers.