I'm not sure if I took what I should have from Leaves of Grass, I think I would have had to done quite a bit of reading about what to expect and how to interpret what Whitman was saying from the perspective of 1855. They would definitely some very poignant sentences and it was gorgeously written, I think just because it was written so long ago so much of it went over my head and where they might have been meaning was just words for me.