Whitman had many themes in his poetry; these are only a few.
	For example, in section 48 of “Song of Myself”:
	I have said that the sould is not more than the body
	And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
	And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is,
	And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud
	….
	And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.