Life.

My favorite Whitman poem is Life.  This poem talks about going through life facing the different challenges it may throw at us and how we need to keep on pushing on.  This was what I thought it meant at first at least.  I thought that it was just a little piece of wording that was there to help encourage someone to keep on keeping on.  I liked that this poem was short because I get distracted from things easily and long things of text tend to overwhelm me and this poem did not.

As I read this poem a second time I realized that it could actually be taken a whole different way.  It could be about a soldier who gave his life or a soldier that  is returning home from a war.  Whitman uses different words in his poem to make me think both ways.  It makes me think that whatever has happened or might happen is alright because it is out of our control and is life and we have to live with it and learn to deal with it and move on.