![]() ![]() Initially, Whitman addresses the reoccurring questions associated with one’s purpose in life when he explicitly cries “Oh me! Oh life! Of the questions of these recurring.” He then digresses, discussing this existential attitude that is similar to “endless trains.” Where the “cities fill’d with the foolish” is introduced is where Whitman first seems to convey aspects of transcendentalism, specifically, the concepts of disregarding teachers and of contradicting oneself. While Walt Whitman is not considered a traditional transcendentalist, his poem “Oh me! Oh life!” incorporates various elements of transcendentalism expressed in the works of both Emerson and Thoreau. ![]()
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