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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