Walt Whitmans Style

Henry David Thoreau. He believed in Emerson and Thoreau’s Transcendentalist beliefs.

Whitman believed that individualism stems from listening to one’s inner voice and that one’s life is guided by one’s intuition. Whitman lent himself to this concept of independence. He once said, “Everything on earth has the divine spark within and thus is all part of a whole.” This philosophy of individualism led to an optimistic emphasis on society. Because Whitman immodestly praised the human body and glorified the senses, “Walt Whitman’s poems assert the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity.”

Whitman’s first poem in Leaves of Grass is called “Song of Myself”. In “Song of Myself” Whitman tells us that the absolute unity of matter and spirit, and all, which that unity involves, is the domi

nant conception of this first and most characteristic period. Whitman said, “The true poet is not the follower of beauty, but the august of beauty.” Whitman’s “Song of Myself” was capable of making whoever withes to be so, wiser, happier, better; and it does these not by acting on the intellect, by telling us what is best for us, what we ought to do and avoid doing, but by acting directly on the moral nature itself, and elevating and purifying that.

In conclusion, I conclude that Whitman’s poems really do express his transcendental beliefs. I believe he really did try to assert the worth of the individual in all his poems. He used great similes and metaphors to pinpoint his beliefs. Also, his frequent use of cataloging, parallelism, and free verse contributed to his beliefs. Whitman was a great writer who brought up his own way of writing poetry. His poems were all original.

This also sh

Some topics in this essay:
Emily Dickinson's, Myself” Whitman, Thoreau’s Transcendentalist, Leaves Grass, Walt Whitman, “song myself”, David Thoreau, assert worth individual, beliefs whitman, assert worth, worth individual, whitman’s poems,