In “I Sing the Body Electric”, Whitman describes the human body, both the female and male bodies, describing their different parts and what makes them sacred and divine. In Section 9, Whitman lists of basically every part of the body, emphasizing this distinction between the body and the soul. And yet, he ends the poem with the line “O I say now these are the soul!” (Whitman 258). So which is it? Are the body and the soul two distinct features of human existence that work together to function within human life, or are these two features interconnected to an extreme degree where they are undistinguishable from each other?