Whitman unites the North and the South through his verses in Song of Myself. The poem uses a transcendental philosophy to express his purpose. In Chapter 52 of Whitman’s Song of Myself he introduces us into his work by using a creative image of the harassing society by which we are chained. The owl is a perfect example of that due to its worldwide idea of being wise. In the same sense society think it’s wise and knows anything and everything about the world when it knows very little. Time and time again Walt uses “I” that he incorporates into nature and how it is ever transcending, just as he is trying to do. Next, his “barbaric yawp” shows how he is finally acquiring his true voice and how it towers over the world breaking the barrier of “the roofs of the world.” Now that he is transcending he is beginning to become one with nature by how the last moments of day seem to “hold back” for him. He is in likeness with the sun. Once the air “coaxes” him he is starting to personify nature by it persuading him to follow it and continue. While he is being coaxed he is showing us the sweetness of departing and becoming one with the environment, which he so craves. He then “effuses his foes with eddies,” making him one with the water in our earth and later nourishing our bodies. That later, and finally, leads to Whitman “bequeathing” himself into the dirt and coexisting with his brothers once again in the ground. Next, he starts stating how we will not know who he is anymore but, nonetheless, he will be of “good health” to us by fueling our bodies with protein as he is in the plants, water, dirt, etc. Finally, in Walt’s last paragraph, it has a dark and ominous feeling towards it as he resonates that if you search for him “one place search for another,” giving us the impression that he omnipresent. It’s a brilliant idea for a transcendentalist. However, if we continue reading, we see him slyly say, “w