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During this last Thursday class, I was very confused with the fact that the merging led to the divergence.  What I think I understood of it was that it is not Whitman who merges with us, but we as lectors who merge in Whitman’s poetry.  By doing so, we let the poetry affect us and though it we find an idea that the poem reminds us of.  I think then it is from the different memories that divergence emerges and therefore it leads toward the evolution of the human’s ways of thinking.  Indeed, this poem could change our brain in a certain way.  In addition, the first thing that I noticed when I read Whitman was that his poetry seemed to be a representation of his mind in which we see the way he thinks, he jumps from one idea to another, not trying to make any sense.  By doing so, I believe he is giving a good representation of our unconsciousness, which corresponds to a sequence of associations.