There Was a Child Went Forth

I personally did not like this poem at all. I found it to be very drought out and uninteresting. But this is a personal reflection so I must say this reminds me of going to my friend's house when I was younger and inspecting everything, since it was always a new house. Whitman seems to be over analyzing everything he sees as a child, but I don't blame him since that makes anyone much more creative with their thoughts. Another part of me did not understand this poem at all, I read it over twice and really got no solid meaning from it. I'm sure Whitman had a better idea in mind than that but it just never came across to me.