Summary and Analysis: Song of Myself"" Sections 1-5, lines 1-98 The poet will "sing myself," but "what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." This section introduces 28 men seen from the viewpoint of a woman who is confined inside her house and is secretly looking from her window, attracted by the beauty of the young men's bodies. Note: Section 18 is different in later editions of "Song of Myself." Song of Myself Section 11 by Walt Whitman: Summary and Analysis This section is representative of the frankness and boldness of expression of Whitman's poetry. In the later editions the section is devoted entirely to images of war, which were likely influenced by Whitman's experiences in the Civil War. We're still talking about the 1855 edition here, but don't worry, we'll get … Here Whitman offers nearly seventy-five lines of images of people engaging in various activities. It is said that a poem is an act of attention—to someone, something, some experience or portion of existence, grasped, imagined, or remembered—and in the first section of “Song of Myself” Whitman offers an image of the poet attending to the world, loafing … We saw catalogues earlier in “Song of Myself” (indeed, as early as Section 2), but nothing prepares the reader for the seemingly endless catalogue of Section 15, the second-longest section in the poem. The poet loafs on the grass and invites his soul to appear.