Walt Whitman was, by all means, a free man. He wrote about whatever struck his fancy, basically. He felt free in spirit and being. This would lead me to the conclusion that if he ever took a spring break from his writing, he would express his free nature by doing things that were very “adventurous.”
Whitman would probably fit in very well in a nudist colony somewhere, expressing himself. As in his poem “Song of Myself,” he celebrates everything; the United States, the feelings of life and the self, etc., so he would most likely feel quite at home with the nudist clan.
But not only would these nudists be, well, nude, but they’d have to be a traveling group as well. Whitman would probably like to visit the whole U.S. While traveling, he’d most likely make it a point to stop by any place that honored the veterans of the Civil War, seeing as how he was nurse to them in the year 1865. He might even bring his book of poetry, “Drum-Taps,” or “Sequel to Drum-Taps,” and read a poem a two, to remember them by. Whitman would also probably visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., because his “Captain” during the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln.
He would probably be very impressed with how very large the United States actually were and most likely write about them in his poetry, like he did when he returned home from the south after his first visit there. I’m just saying if he saw the whole U.S., he’d most definitely have to talk about it in his writing. He’d probably also write about his experiences with the nude dudes, and might even slightly regret having to return home, after seeing all of what really is out there. If you ask me, he would probably enjoy a “spring break” very much, but would write about almost all of it when he returned home.
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