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sexuality
Title: sexuality
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1237 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
sexuality
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 to distinctly differentiate the soul
from all nature. Whitman, however, chooses …showed first 75 words of 1237 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1237 total…sexual self against such broad parameters, Whitman
generates a decidedly transcendental experience. With such vivid imagery in
his celebration of the sensual, he elevates the limited faculties of man to
being capable of limitless understanding. The role of the sexual in his
work is integral to this sense of active, individual discovery. Whitman's
notion of sexuality acknowledges it as one of the highest forms of sensual
pleasure, and one of great personal and communicative importance.
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