WHITMAN'S SENSIBILTY IN SONG OF MYSELF

Walt Whitman in his poetry makes himself the center of the universe. He brings to his emphatic self presentation a detailed, partly ironic, partly celebratory sense of what it means to be an American; his poetry suggests something of what life in the United States must have been like in the middle of the 19th centuryö (Knox et al., 1992).

LetÆs look at WhitmanÆs indisputably American sensibility first. There is evidence for this everywhere. One reason for this sensibility has got to be due to the fact that Whitman, except for a one-time visit to Canada, spent his entire life (1819 û1892) in this country never leaving its shores and, in 1879, traveled extensively through the American West (Stovall, 1961). Another reason is that, politically, he is a Jeffersonian Democrat and an admirer and follower of two quintessentia

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