Whitman and Bardic Symbols

Walt Whitman was a very confusing author. He used the theme of Self. Self is a combination of soul, personality, the real me. Those are three things that can help define a person. Whitman wrote about them all the time. His favorite to write about is Christianity. He does because he talks about God in his poems. He becomes confused by talking about these poems. It a rumor that Whitman was gay. In the poem, he says "I throw myself upon your breast, my father!I cling to you so that you cannot unloose me," (Whitman). This shows that he was confused about his sexuality. He does not mean he literal father. Though I find it skeptical that he would even mention kissing another man unless he was gay. The father is God. It is because as we all know in our religion, we call God our father because he put us on the earth to live. That instance is the example of the Christianity part of Self. The poem is a reflection on his life. Whitman did not know what he was telling people. When I read the poem, I was also confused. Whitman was talking about many different things and it was confusing about what he was talking about and trying to wait. The writer of the "Bardic Symbols" review even said that it was confusing. He said that there was no use in trying to find the symbols that Walt Whitman uses. He said that basically no matter how many times someone read the poem, a person was still not able to find any meaning behind the poem. He did say that Whitman was trying to identify himself because he was going through a tough time and he needed something to get away from life. Whitman was a very confused man. The poems he writes all have meaning, but usually only he knows the true meaning. I am not a fan of him because his stuff does not relate to everybody because it is about himself.