At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners. . . of every hue and caste am i, of every rank and religion.
-Walt Whitman, Song Of Myself
Why did Whitman compose these lines?
a to point out the vastness of the United States
b to display the wide array of social classes of each region
c to comment on the religious differences he noticed between regions
d to celebrate the difference regions and people that make up the nation