walt whitman
...ng in the combination of his writing (grass). Each blade of grass is distinct from every other blade of grass, as grains of sand are each unique one from the other; however, it takes all of them (or many, many of them, be it sand or grass) to make up the whole. I think the title represents the content of the poem, in a nutshell - we are all beings, unique unto ourselves, but cannot exist without all other beings, as there would not be a beach without millions of grains of sand, or an ocean without millions of drops of water. 'Time', which he is also concerned with in the poem, is comprised of many millions of moments or minutes, again, individual but nothing unless combined with others to form a whole entity. Also, I think he...