1. Walt Whitman and the Emergence of Transcendentalism
... ). Similarly, Durand uses the image of a continuous river, a path, providing life to a new generation of foliage and nature, which arcs back towards the beginning of the stream creating a never-ending circle for the process to undoubtedly continue. Whitman's choice of the words, "onward" and "outward," can be seen as a continuing onward cycle of life or spiral outward ... given to the trees causes them to grow. And as the seasons change, and the trees lose the leaves that signify their vitality, nature enters a new stage in its continuous circle of life. In both works, the journey toward...
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