Connections from Whitman

Well what I think I connect in this poem is what I think is its meaning. I feel that this poem talks about how children absorb absolutely everything. Once they absorbed actions, ideas, and other things, they use it. I, for own, do this or have done this. I absorb the sayings and actions of my friends and other people I am around and start using them with out realizing it. It is like people are built by the things and people around them and that is what Whitman is trying to convey. I figure that is the meaning and that is what essentially connected with me.