Walt Whitman and Humanity
Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist poet, who was the first American to use free write. He puts to use imagery and creates numerous ideas and thoughts. He wrote various poems including: “Song of Myself” and “When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom’d”. When reading these particular poems, Whitman seems to be concerned not simply with himself, but with all of humanity. These poems supply us with convincing evidence of this notion. The five main points are that; Whitman uses I in the collective form, celebration of being an American, national figures death, patterns of life, death, and rebirth, and the peoples’ connection with nature. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume, you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”(1.1-3). Whitman begins “Song of Myself”, with these confident lines. In these few words he explains that when he celebrates and sings, we should also be celebrating and singing. That we are all connected together and what he knows we also know. When he continues on in the poem he is not singularly referring to himself but everybody, that all have these thoughts and ideas. This is why he uses grass in the question that the child ask
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Approximate Word count = 900
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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