When reading for class tomorrow, all I kept thinking was “who is the ‘I’ that is narrating the poem?” and “who are the ‘you’ that is being talked to?”. I naturally assumed that the narrator is supposed to be Whitman and we are supposed to be the person spoken to, but I always like to think about if that was necessarily the intention of the author. I don’t necessarily have any specific ideas of who the narrator/reader would be if not Whitman and ourselves, but I wonder if the main ideas of the poem would be more impactful if these people were represented by someone else than who we naturally assume them to be.