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Whitman is one of the most well know nature writers in history. His vast knowledge of the outdoors  and individualism helps him become this way. He aspires for people to think for themselves and their individual. The  opening section, "Inscriptions," gives the reader an overview of the work and the purview of its author. Whitman names the subject of the work - "One's-self." This is not only Whitman's self, though he certainly identifies himself as the hero of the epic, but it is also the reader's self as well as a more encompassing democratic self. The subject, then, is Whitman, the reader, and the nation. The themes of "Inscriptions" are as varied as the themes of the entire book. He writes poems of a political, social, personal, and sexual nature, all ideas that he will elaborate on in later sections.

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                 Transcendental Ideology

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                 Transcendental Ideology

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Whitman portrays transcendental ideology as he talks about the waves surrounding the ships. He uses strong word choice such as emulous when he describes the waves. Emulous meaning competitive so one could assume waves were trying to overlap each other taking the ships forward. He also describes how the pennant flies aloft, as the ship speeds with the waves. Whitman often uses personification in this poem as he describes objects like pennant, ships, and waves with human and animal abilities. "They surround the ship with shining curving motions of foam." Whitman also uses strong word choice as he describes the sea and waves. "Lo, the unbounded sea..."

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'The Ship Starting' has a sequence of events that develop a short story, going from a ships sailing down and waves begin to surround the ships.

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Whitman in 'Beginning my Studies' uses first person to describe his first steps and his progression in his studies.

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In 'Beginning my Studies' talks about Whitman conflicting with himself as he tries to study. He explains he wants to begin his study but is distracted by ecstatic songs.

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Whitman uses imagery in 'The Ship Starting' by describing the waves surrounding the ship. He creates a picture in your minds with his words.

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'The Ship Starting'
uses personification by giving objects animal and human abilities. For example, Whitman focuses on the breast of the ship spreading all the ships and carrying moonsails

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'Beginning my Studies' theme is a relatively easy one to spot, it focuses around time and how it shouldn't expand nor contract, but how you should live your life and be happy.

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Lo, the unbounded sea,
On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even
her moonsails.
The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately-
below emulous waves press forward,
They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.

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Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.