In one of the sections of the poem, "The Song of Myself" Walt Whitman begins with a child asking a question, "What is grass?" Grass is a symbol of life. God, who created both heaven and earth, also created life. When Whitman refers to the grass as a “handkerchief of the Lord” (7), as a gift. When people look at grass, they don't think of it as a creation but rather simply as a plant. Whitman refers to grass as “a child, the child produced by vegetation” (11, 12). Here the grass is a metaphor for the birth of a child. In often cases, the birth of anything is celebrated because it symbolizes a new life, a new beginning. Whitman in a way compares grass to a human society. He mentions that the grass is "a uniform hieroglyph" (13) and they "look alike" (14). In scientific terms, all human beings are similar to each other and the only aspect that makes each person different is personality and race. But even if people are physically different from each other, each person is the same internally, as Whitman says: “Growing up among blacks as well as whites, “Knuck, T....