Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is a pome that shows untranslatable self. In this poem the Walt Whitman he fully use words to express the people they have unlimited potential. Just like the what he write in this pome “I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy.” These language told us what he beliefs. He believed untranslatable self and personal identity. Walt Whitman use what he has is what he are in the beginning of the pome. Then he use that to search natural to explore new things during the nature. In exploring the changing constantly, in the end, he gave a definition. I think the definition Walt Whitman give is “untranslatable self”. Like to find or exploring the ego is a subjective experience, can’t explain to others in the process of what’s going on. As Walt Whitman said everyone is equally, but they all have they own life. You are you even identity changed. You still are the one can not be replaced and translate to other person. Everyone are untranslatable during the world.

Didi Hu