Connection to Whitman

from :"There Was a Child Went Forth"

-The early lilacs became part of this child,
And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red
clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the
mare's foal and the cow's calf,
And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the
pond-side,
And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the
beautiful curious liquid,
And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part
of him.

I connected with this part of the poem because I like how Whitman made nature and all the beautiful things of nature to be connected with this child. Human beings have had a connection with nature for thousands of years and it is what helped us to survive for so long. I like to think that nature has become part of us all, even though the growing trend is to be glued to technology. I hope that as a new generation of human beings, we all can remember to put down the cell phones long enough to get back to our connection with nature.