Dear Whitman (Week 1)
Mr Whitman, I am a senior in highschool and I read your poem Song of Myself, and it feels like you're telling me my ordinary life is actually worth making attention to. When you say "contain multitudes", it makes me think about all the different versions of myself I'm trying to figure out, as I am growing and entering adulthood. I like how you write about people in streets and fields, because it makes school and home feel like they matter too. Sometimes your confidence sounds huge, and I wonder how you learned to be so proud of just being yourself. I hope as I grow into the person I am becoming that I can take some of the traits you have, and carry it with me.