Walt Whitman #2

"The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I to am untranslateable , I sound my barbaric yaws over the roofs of the world" (Whitman 83)

Here, Whitman is explaining that he has not become domesticated, and dependant on industry and society. He is responding to the accusations of the spotted hawk. The spotted hawk is a metaphor for Emerson and Thoreau's Transendental beliefs, which tells him to get outside and enjoy nature and not confrom to society through gabbing and loitering. He too, is wild just as nature is and he is also capable of experienceing it.