how shall I warble myself for the dead one there I loved? And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone? And what shall my perfume be, for the grave of him I love?
This stanza shows romanticization of death through having rich love for their loss. Describing ways of connection with their lost one.
liquid, and free, and tender! wild and loose to my soul! O wondrous singer! You only I hear......yet the star holds me, (but will soon depart Yet the lilac, with mastering odor, holds me.
The descriptions show the beauty in the song the speaker hears that will eventually leave, symbolizing the loss they already are mourning. Whitman romanticizes death through hearing their lost ones' voice leaving them.
All over bouquets of roses, death! I cover you over with roses and early lilies; But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, Copious, I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes; With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, For you, and the coffins all of you, O death.)
In a mourning of death, roses and lilies and lilacs were shown to express the deep ways of love and grief. Covering death with flowers that connect into beauty, turning grief into a deep expression and feeling of love. Whitman shows Romanticism through nature that mirrors human emotions and peace or beauty even in loss.