The Authors Background Walt Whitman was born on a Long Island farm in the countryside, May 31, 1819. He loved to spend his free time at the beach and enjoyed mingling with his peers in the “’fascinating chaos’” of the city (Babcock, 1969, pp. 5). At the age of 19, Whitman began his work as journalist at Long Island Newspaper Company. He made a tour around American and Canada when his impression on civil war ignited his ideas of writing books and poems of “’American dream.’” Whitman presented democracy as a simple imposing leaf of grass that could grow in any area; open zones, close zone, and among diverse people, (Babcock, 1969) continued; Whitman advocated a “doctrine of individualism” that reflected in such line “’I celebrate myself, and sing myself,’” this promoted the ideas of companionship and of brotherhood. Whitman discovered the principle of unity or oneness which reconciles such apparent opposite as “self and others, body and soul, war and peace, life and death” (pp. 6). Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, May 3, 1803, PBS.org said he followed his father’s steps as a Unitarian minister in 1829 and experienced religious crisis from the death of his eighteen months beloved wife. He drew his ideas from artists, philosophers and religious teachers to turn the concept of self-reflected of God as a Being in human to “the fact [of] spiritual existence [that] reflected in the world of nature” Hodgins, Silverman, Stern, & Hinojosa-Smith (1985) said; “Beyond natural law and human reason, there must exist a higher, spiritual law that permeates all forms of life,” Emerson’s “over-soul” pointed the moment of spiritual intensity of ourselves that he gave a strong point of “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that string,” in Self-Reliance. This concept was misunderstood of the “outer self” and the “essential self” that every body shared in common being or the “over-soul.” Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates to that Iron String Emerson was an honorable man and he practiced what he preached. The ideal of “trust thyself” was the truth of the essence of people. To be true was to speak of the truth to “thyself” or to “yourself” because that was the only way we could be true to ourselves. “By trusting yourself, then your heart will not ache with guilt and your conscience will not tear your mind,” said Jason (1995) continued; when we trusted ourselves, we lived in a state of peace and our “hearts vibrated like a string on a guitar; making music pleasing to the ear and the body.” Emerson said “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.” In contrast of Whitman’s “Song of Myself” was the opposite point of view on how he elaborated “self” as “nature.” Whitman’s idea of the self was the identification of oneself with other selves, and his relationship with the elements of nature and the universe, Chatraporn (2006) stated; the self was the creation of mental state of a spiritual entitlement that remained in us from the thoughts and experiences which represented in the conscious mind. Whitman’s concept of self was the spiritual insight that formed from his imagination to himself and the universal self. In section 1, “I celebrate myself and sing myself / what I assume you shall assume, / for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” “I” was Whitman, or each individual, at the same time universalized to others. He was “thirty-seven years old in perfect health,” and hoped to celebrate himself until his death. He let nature elaborated his life “without check with original energy.” He purposely generalized himself with others as how they would reflect their individualization the same. Whitman also included his poem about trusting others in section 10 that trust was the central ingredient for a democracy to flourish. “You have to trust your neighbors, even if your neighbor is a runaway slave who is probably very suspicious of you” Shmoop.com (2008) said, “Whitman doesn't bother to hid