Question

Read the following passage from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death

Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.


After reading the above passage from "Song of Myself," which of the following best identifies with Whitman's view of nature?

A. He despises the connection between himself and his surroundings.
B. He has a great love of nature and displays his connection with nature through this verse.
C. Whitman feels a great disconnect between himself and nature.
D. The poem has nothing to do with nature and instead represents how Whitman was raised by his parents.