Walt Whitman There Was a Child Went Forth

After reading, There Was a Child Went Forth, I think Whitman was writing about nature, then a school, his parents, the streets, the houses and the nature again. Because of that, I think that he is talking about how a child grew up which he compared to nature. First he was a baby all cool and calm. He is living in the country with nature ( flowers) all around him. The he grew up moves from the country to the city and started to going to school. He encounters many changes along the way. Disciplined for his actions by his parents, then he grew up and get his own house, then he retires and is cool and clam again with nature.

I also noticed in, There Was a Child Went Forth, there was a balance in his poem: mother/father, country/city, and childhood/adulthood.

Considering I am not a fan of poetry, this poem was pretty easy to understand.