Discuss several of Walt Whitmans poetic works, pointing out how they address social and personal themes that were important to him.

Rendezvous With Nature : A Reflection on Walt Whitman 's Poetry

The known universe has one complete lover and that is the greatest poet . His love above all love has leisure and expanse . he leaves room ahead of himself . He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . he is sure . he scorns intervals . His experience and the showers and thrills are not for nothing . Nothing can jar him . suffering and darkness cannot---death and fear cannot . To him complaint and jealousy and envy are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . he saw them buried . The

sea is not surer of the shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and of all perfection and beauty . - (Transcendental Influence : Preface n .d , par . 9

American poet , journalist and essayist , and best known for his masterpiece , Leaves of Grass (1855 , Walt Whitman , who was born on May 31 , 1819 on the West Hills of Long Island , New York ( Biography n .d , par . 1 ) to a father carpenter and a mother whose descendants are from Dutch farmers , has been regarded as one of the transcendentalist poets ' as reflected in most of his works which espoused individual connections to spirituality , often through harmonious relationships with nature ( Whitman , Emerson 'n .d . The central theme in his works arises from his pantheistic view of life , from symbolic identification of regeneration in nature . His works reflect presents life it is : with beauty and madness simple yet complex frail yet overcoming - that...