Connections to Whitman

 Me at 4years old on the right

I really enjoyed this poem about childhood. This poem talks about how everything the boy saw made part of him. One line that was in the poem said "the cow's calf." This was definitely a line that I could connect to. From the time I was born I have been around my cows. I have been showing cows since I learned to walk and working with my cows is a huge part of my life. I believe that working with my cows and helping on the farm have made me into the person I am today. Showing my cows and working on the farm have given me a work ethic that not many city kids today have. It also has given me an understanding about where my food comes from and I do not take my food for granted because I know how much work farmers put into making food for the world. This is a reason why I very much agree with what Whitman says in this poem about childhood. Cows have made me the person I am today and I would not trade all of the time I put into my cows for anything.