Context: Walt Whitman exults in his peculiarly vigorous communion with nature. He feels not only a direct and intimate relationship with the physical world about him, but also with all of humanity, believing that all men are made of one substance and are fundamentally one being rather than a number of individuals. Further, man and nature are of one substance, all part of Creation. Thus, when Whitman writes a "Song of Myself," he is not indulging in excessive egoism, but is simply rejoicing in his membership in a world of life which he finds deeply gratifying. He is able to find a total spiritual repose deriving from his confidence in the rightness of life.