Saturday, March 9, 2019
Walt Whitman- Humans and Nature
Walt Whitman relates military personnel to nature in many of his poems. He often refers to us creation initiate of the circle of breeding. Whitman believes in the idea that humans never in truth die. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, is one poem that he relates himself and worldly concern to nature. In this poem, Whitman offers the idea that we are made from nature. One line reads, My tongue, all atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air Whitman also believes that humans perish on after death. In A child said What is the tummy? Whitman asks what has become of people who have died.He answers this by writing, They are alive and well(p) somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. This is an example of his belief that life goes on, even after death. Whitman talks more on this life after death in The spotted hawk swoops by. He says that when we die, we turn to the dirt, and he says if he is missed, to look under our shoes. To finish his poem he sa ys, flunk to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one tell search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. In A Noiseless Patient Spider, Whitman compares humans to a spider in nature.He says as spiders return out their web, so do we also try to throw out our web to make connections with the universe. For example, we are now trying to steady down on a college and career that will bridge to the next part of our life. He says that humankind is, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them Walt Whitman was a prominent American poet who felt in sync with nature. In most of his poems, he tried to encompass the connection between nature and human beings. With map of vivid adjectives and verbs, he has made himself a great poet in American history.
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