So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
the nature of the existence that may follow one’s death. He was not tempted to describe or de¤ne the nature of a future world; t ...
argument and many proofs to show that when a man is dead his soul yet exists, and has any force or intelligence.”^48 Some ancien ...
Hicks remarked that “Christianity brought a new wisdom. But learning,” he added cautiously, “depends on the learner.”^52 Emerson ...
on the one hand, immortality is likened to the vital energy, which, ®owing from time immemorial, is passed from one organism to ...
sight into the human condition, and his struggle to maintain an amelio- rative and humane faith, readers may ¤nd his treatment o ...
death offers no options: the same gates are open to all.” Throughout Leaves of Grass those “gates” serve as passageways that lea ...
satis¤ed: if they can explain, let them explain: if they can explain they can do more than I can do.” He conceded that his convi ...
1 Like Dante, who was “midway upon the journey of our life” when he entered the darkened woods,^1 Whitman launched his poetic ex ...
any decisive evidence. But he believed that the sum of human knowledge (which he conceived as a harmonious blending of personal ...
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invit ...
power, the moral elevation and the personal joyousness” that wrought “the change... in his mind and heart” and that marked “the ...
trines that ®ourished at midcentury. Like the blind John Milton who was willing to “stand and wait” for divine guidance, the per ...
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Bearing the owner’s name some ...
hood mortality, when legions of minor poets and portrait painters memo- rialized the deaths of children. And death is personi¤ed ...
That “sprout” of grass is an effective metaphor for nature’s perpetual re- newal and for human progress both within and beyond t ...
self on a vast imaginary journey, during which he will test his extraordi- nary visionary and sympathetic powers and will enter ...
The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I ¤nd its purpose and place up there toward the November sky. In Roman ...
laration that “these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, / And such as it is to be of these more or less ...
no one is excluded. Thus, his words become the Bread of Life, and he becomes the godlike lover who yearns to instill his message ...
2 By the mid–nineteenth century the meaning of time had changed. As American society became industrialized, time was measured in ...
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