More than we know
As a millenial that recently has liked up with the latest Kendrick Lamar's album "Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers", Whitman's poems feel exactly like a deep symbolic Kendrick Lamar song. I know I'm getting the timeline wrongly here because there are hundreds of years separating Lamar and Whitman apart, but what I'm trying to say is that hip hop is not that far from what we consider classic literature as these modern poets like Kendrick himself and Nas (that I've mentioned before in another review) are capable of depicting feelings, places and life experiences onto their music crafts like these poets did back in the day.