Whitman in Section 6 of "Song of Myself" gives readers a way into their own expansive poetic consciousness. Whitman models for us how asking a childlike question, e.g. What is the grass? Where does the sound go? -- is able to stir the creative imagination. First, the question and then, rather than being the wise guy or gal, simply acknowledge what is true: I do not know, and continue, I guess . . . maybe . . . . .perhaps it is . . . and soon enough Whitman will greet you like the morning light:
What is this morning light? I do not know
Perhaps it is the song of my heart.
In the end, we know no more
Than the fall of rain upon dry land.
Where then come these flowers?
Perhaps they hear me calling
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