![]() ![]() Thus, we have to make sense of the world by ourselves and “travel the road by ourselves” to be able to emerge with a greater knowledge of the world around us and what our place in it is. He is appealing to our own sense of knowledge, which is possibly different from that of others. With this, he means that the Knower has to make up his own mind about what to believe and should not rely on the beliefs and thoughts of other people, because this can influence our own way of thinking. In the poem, Walt Whitman talks about how the person “shall no longer take things at second or third hand…”. With “you”, Whitman seems to be referring to the Knower, who is situated at the center of the Knowledge diagram. This poem by Walt Whitman can be related to TOK. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know… -Walt Whitman, “Song of myself” (1855) ![]() Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, Each and every moment is a new birth, a new world of Now unfolding before the awake senses of all those who are embodied in that moment. You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self… In a later poem called Unfolded Out of the Folds, Whitman imagined all of life as a series of unfoldings, just as every new life and identity is unfolded out of the folds of the woman. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, ![]()
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