Compare ideas about this poet’s identify with Walt Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes.” The poet says that the poem is about “transgender desire.” In what ways does this seem to be

I Conflate Shame and Desire and the Ocean Purses Her Lips by Uma Dwivedi What qualities of the ocean seem appealing to the narrator? Compare ideas about this poet’s identify with Walt Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes.” The poet says that the poem is about “transgender desire.” In what ways does this seem to be the case? The poet seems somewhat ambivalent about identifying with the ocean: “her voice lovely and treacherous & deep.” Comment on this idea. How is the last line connected to the ideas expressed in their poem?