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However, Whitman's admonition is an imperative: the modern man can become blinded by scientific knowledge and disdain the direct, spiritual contact with the universe: "His poem 'When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer' expresses impatience with systematic observation and meticulous analysis and favors direct contact with the wonder of the night sky."(Krupp, 44) I think that Whitman's stance is extremely important for my studies and my future development as an individual
Correspondence With the first edition of Leaves of Grass under his belt, Whitman enjoyed a letter of praise from Ralph Waldo Emerson, which Whitman subsequently published in one of the newspapers he worked on, and also in the second edition of his work. To be sure, Whitman has a number of great admirers during the years of 1855-1856, where Whitman visited and corresponded with fellow writers such as Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott (Elliot, 1008)
To be sure, Whitman has a number of great admirers during the years of 1855-1856, where Whitman visited and corresponded with fellow writers such as Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott (Elliot, 1008). However, during the Civil War between the years of 1860 and 1866 Whitman has over 600 letter sent and received during this period, much of them preserved for modern day consumption and study (Folsom, and Price)
" ) But for Whitman, phrenology was used to describe an instinctive feeling towards democracy, which was almost sexualized. As Mullins writes, "Whitman borrowed from phrenology two terms, 'amativeness' to signal love between men and women, and 'adhesiveness' to signal deep friendship…Although some phrenologists had also used the term to refer to male/male friendship, this meaning would be more fully developed and advanced by Whitman" (Mullins 2009, p171)
Walt Whitman One major theme in Whitman is what he frankly refers to as "the love of comrades…the manly love of comrades." (Whitman, "A Song")
It permeates all, the Past as well as the Present, and it is the grandest triumph of the human intellect." (Walt Whitman, 1166) In the poem under discussion, we notice how ordinary the language in its meaning
Romanticism influenced American politics, philosophy and art. This movement appealed to the radical spirit of America including those aiming to free from the stern religious traditions (Dickinson and Thomas 40-176)
In addition, Dickinson aims at finding a place where God marks his domain. Her poems reflect theological thinking characterized by extra cultural, physical, practical and virtually mystical (Monte 21-51)
These religious poems revealed a commitment to the particular religious attitudes. In addition, they revealed a process of ever shifting devotions, unwilling to devote to any of them revealing a religious uncertainty (Shawcross 71-90)
However, she confronts Jesus and asks where his "House" is, in response; Jesus tells her it is in Paradise. This poem does not point out the ambivalence about paradise (Flibbert 129-137)
Though many men have died and sacrificed during the war, everyone believed that the terrible things were over. This belief was shattered "where on the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead" (Whitman lines 7-8)
Literature and Poems have the capacity to accomplish this because they generate modifications in the state of the soul itself. In the poem "I hear America Singing," Walt Whitman acknowledges the disparities between the different kinds of people in America, taking note that the voices he overhears and makes out are "each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" (Whitman 313 Lines 9-11)
Literature and Poems have the capacity to accomplish this because they generate modifications in the state of the soul itself. In the poem "I hear America Singing," Walt Whitman acknowledges the disparities between the different kinds of people in America, taking note that the voices he overhears and makes out are "each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else" (Whitman 313 Lines 9-11)