In the early years of America's founding, a powerful air of uncapped potential, the desire for expansion and individual identification appealed to the American people. Progress was inevitable, as was cultural definition. But over time, the feeling of limitless force, time, and space transformed into something that, for better or worse, was no longer shared by later poets. Those of the “New World” realized that their world had never really managed to leave behind the faults of the “Old”. Societal tension grew as different poets and authors struggled to define the direction of American culture and its ideals. When no solid idea could adequately capture American culture, the concept of an ever-evolving American identity was adopted. It became clear that American identity could not be concisely defined because its description morphed into something larger than itself. Despite the idea of ​​defining something so incredibly broad and broad, society is increasingly preoccupied with explaining exactly what American identity means. Even when authors such as Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson explore American identity, their ideas, while similar in many ways, offer various nuances and perspectives on the subject. By studying the various idiosyncrasies of their language and the emphasis placed on each, the complexities of American identity can truly be brought into focus. In the case of linear motion, Whitman offers a distinct perspective of time while ignoring the traditional idea of ​​external reality. This loss is triggered by an increased presence in the realm of consciousness. Therefore, Whitman's form of nonlinear motion is accompanied by destruction...... middle of paper ... lets the world pass before him and assigns each object its name. This is how he rediscovers the particularities of the world around him, camouflaged for too long by conventional attitudes. However, unlike Adam, he doesn't just name names, but Whitman feels at one with what he creates. Thus, Whitman's attempt to establish a new relationship with reality and contribute to the fundamental ideals of American identity rests on two premises. On the one hand, he wants to experience and appreciate each individual in their particularity, much like Emerson's "centrality of things" (Emerson, Circles) and in celebration of the "sacredness" (Whitman, Leaves of Grass) held within of the individual; on the other, his need to identify with objects makes him demand that everything refers to the founding of the world, and particularly of America..