“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman (post 6): Celebrated poem calls itself “untranslatable” and says “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean”

Having just read “Song of Myself,” I tend to agree with the poem’s concluding section:

“The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. 

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, 

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world… 

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean…” (1).

However, since the poem is under a hundred pages, and next week I expect to have two scholarly books to explain it to me, I reserve judgment.

1. Walt Whitman. “Song of Myself.” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version