Many poets, often transcendentalists, explore this give and take relationship between man and nature, specifically in sections of Walt Whitman's song of myself. In the first section of Whitman's piece, he presents that "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." ... Whitman hints this in some of his passages how nature and man should behave together. ... Whitman is suggesting that the grass is almost like the grass of a cemetery feeding on the bodies of the dead. ... In the eleventh passage Whitman is suggesting that to truly experience the world one must be full...

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Walt Whitman was familiar with both old and contemporary elegies and was well-acquainted with the history of the tradition. ... The death of Abraham Lincoln was of particular importance to Whitman. ... In order to study Whitman's view of death, the first thing is to analyze his great elegy "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" , which is both in theme, a tour de force of Whitman's. ... Facing the death, Whitman's attitude is neither fear nor pessimism. ... In Whitman's poems such symbolism is frequently employed. ...

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Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist, and Rainer Rilke wrote at the beginning of the Modernist period, yet both have very similar ideas about a poet's dedication to "things." ... This is where Whitman's method is superior. ... The nature imagery of Whitman is present, but the resolution is not. ... The same was true of Whitman. Whitman, however, did not see so many impossible standards to emulate. ...

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His mother, Laura Whitman Tyler, was well educated and refined (Kramer 19). ... There were a few writers that inspired Agee to write such as Walt Whitman and Hart Crane (Seib 23). ... Agee also showed a resemblance to that of Crane and Whitman in that he had a great affinity for cataloging and used weighty rhetoric that could arouse a prodigious amount of intensity and energy for the reader (24). ...

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• Grade Level: High School