In the early years of America's founding, a powerful air of untapped potential, the desire for expansion and individual identification enamored the American people. Progress was inevitable as was cultural definition. But as time passed, the feeling of unlimited strength, time and space transformed into something that, for better or worse, was no longer shared by later poets. Those in the “New World” came to realize that their world had never managed to leave behind the flaws of the “Old”. Social tension increased as various 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 apparent that American identity could not be defined concisely because its description became something larger than itself. Despite the idea of ​​defining something so incredibly broad and broad, society is increasingly concerned 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 respects, offer various nuances and perspectives on the topic. By investigating the various idiosyncrasies of their language and the focus each emphasizes, the complexities of American identity can truly be highlighted. In the case of linear motion, Whitman proposes a distinct perspective of time while ignoring the traditional idea of ​​external reality. This loss is triggered by a heightened presence in the realm of consciousness. Therefore, Whitman's form of nonlinear movement is accompanied by destruction... middle of paper... lets the world pass before him and gives each object its name. It is in this way that he rediscovers the idiosyncrasies of the world around him, for too long disguised by conventional attitudes. Unlike Adam, however, he is not simply a giver of names, but Whitman feels at one with what he creates. Whitman's attempt to establish a new relationship with reality and to contribute to the fundamental ideals of American identity is therefore based on two premises. On the one hand, he wants to experience and appreciate each individual in his particularity, just like Emerson's "centrality of things" (Emerson, Circles) and in the celebration of the "sacredness" (Whitman, Leaves of Grass) contained in the individual; on the other hand, his need to identify with objects makes him pretend that everything has reference to the foundation of the world, and in particular to America..