Even while staking out his place as a common man, Whitman saw for the poet a special role within democracy. The poet does this better than the politician because, Whitman says:. For the poetic mind is a mind attuned to justice. Within the epic poem that is America, a president is but one figure. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. The Atlantic Crossword. Sign In Subscribe. Scholars and critics will be working on the implications of this for many years to come.
The place in Jack Engle where we can see the themes of Leaves of Grass emerging is chapter 19, where the plot of the novel comes to a dead stop as Jack wanders through the cemetery at Trinity Church in Manhattan and contemplates the various grave plots around him.
Jack begins listening to the ongoing sea of life just outside the cemetery walls, and he realizes that life always flows past the places of death—it may be a different throng of people wandering past, but that flow of life is ever-changing and always ongoing.
Walt Whitman photographed in profile at his home in Camden, New Jersey, in Today, the nation is so divided in political and social and economic and racial ways that it has become impossible to imagine a single unifying voice that speaks for America. So Whitman seems more important now than ever. Whitman knew it would be difficult, perhaps impossible.
During his lifetime, Whitman experienced a massive civil war, an entire generation of American men destroyed, when the union could not contain its multitudes and came apart at the seams. I think he would sense a similar danger today. Please consider downloading the latest version of Internet Explorer to experience this site as intended. Contact Author s Kathleen McGarvey kathleen. Why was Walt Whitman regarded as a revolutionary writer in his time?
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