Another poet I like! (Wow! A 200% increase in this semester!)
To me the last line of the 2nd section is what "Sone of Myself" is about: "You shall listen to all sides and filter them from you self." While reading the rest of "Song of Myself" this seems to be a major point for Whitman.
Another major theme of Whitman's is death. But not in a bad or depressing way. Whitman holds no fear of death (at least he claims in his writings.) It gives hope. "They are alive and well womewhere/The smallest sprout shows there is really no death/.../All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" (line 125-6, 129)
There are many more lines about death, but I like individuality better--so here are a few more of those.
"...conformity/goes to the fourth-remov'd/I wear my hat as I please indoor and out" (line 396-8).
"I exist as I am, that is enough/If no other in thw world be aware I sit content/And is each and all be aware I sit content/One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself" (413-6).
"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise" (330).
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