Walt Whitman Through the history of the United States there have been many poets; with them came an equal number of writing styles. Walt Whitman is certainly one of the most unique American poets. ... Because of this, many composers have taken Whitman's poetry and set it to music (About the poetry). ... On the other hand, his admirers were in denial to the fact that Whitman was a homosexual. "readers have created a Walt Whitman suited to it . ...

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Walt Whitman was a follower of the two Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. ... Whitman lent himself to this concept of independence. ... Because Whitman immodestly praised the human body and glorified the senses, "Walt Whitman's poems assert the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity." ... Both poems talk about death and the impression in the tone and symbols that exudes creativity. ... Eternity and death are two important characters in the poems; in fact eternity is a state of being. . ...

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This line expresses Walt Whitman's philosophy on life and is an almost perfect description of the poet. ... Walt Whitman gives much insight into himself and others in his poetry, and gives his readers a great deal to think about. ... One would never find Walt Whitman writing about Greek gods, or using the words "ye", "ev"n", or any other antiquated word. ... This poem shows very much Whitman's belief that it is important for one to stand up for what one believes in and to make it clear about one's feelings. 5. ... His last releases went under a great deal of revisal and were by ...

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Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman, written in 1941. Matthiessen was influential in determining the canon of American writers from this period: Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. ... In fact, there were a number of stories circulating which focused upon sexually transgressive clergymen, and this may have been an influence on Hawthorne's portrayal of Arthur Dimmesdale. ... The political influences on American romanticism include 18th century notions about human perfectability, the ideals of American democrac...

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In doing so, critics continue to mistake the fact that Emerson offers in his later work and its focus on metonymy something of a "counteraesthetics" to his own earlier conception of metaphorical nature. (11) In this later work that conceives of a natural history or natural method of mind in organic, biological relation to matter, a conception informed by changing views of both matter and mind found in the nineteenth-century natural science he observes in his writings, Emerson revises his poetics of transcendental idealism by shifting the rhetorical grounding from metaphor to metonymy. ... Emer...

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