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Whitman's Song of Myself
Title: Whitman's Song of Myself
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2042 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Whitman's Song of Myself
Song of Myself
Divinity, Sexuality and the Self
Through his poetry, Whitman’s "Song of Myself" makes the soul sensual and makes divine the flesh. In Whitman’s time, the dichotomy between the soul and the body had been clearly defined by centuries of Western philosophy and theology. Today, the goodness of the soul and the badness of the flesh still remain a significant notion in contemporary thought. Even Whitman’s literary predecessor, Emerson, chose …showed first 75 words of 2042 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2042 total…many equally valid meanings to this poem and Robert Frost may have intended this. He may have been trying to achieve a universal understanding. In other words, there is no judgement, no specificity, no moral. There is simply a narrator who makes a decision in his life that had changed the direction of his life from what it may have otherwise been. It allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to the poem.
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