In this literary piece, Whitman once again talks about a swimmer who, by destroying the teacher, truly honors his style. Too many, the idea of ​​destroying the master is blasphemous; however, this is the final key to proving that a teacher has produced a successful student. Students who would outperform the teacher were compared; “Like Whitman himself, our student would be an autodidact, a hungry, undisciplined, self-taught savant” (Bateman). Whitman had his own image to project: “He who with me spreads a breast wider than mine proves the breadth of mine…” (lines 1234). Whitman is saying that a student who demonstrates that he has beaten or become better than the teacher, only proves how good the teacher is