Walt Whitman

Running Head : I SIT AND LOOK OUT

On Walt Whitman 's I Sit and Look Out

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On Walt Whitman 's I Sit and Look Out

Walt Whitman considers his qualifications as a poet and philosopher to be dependent upon his hankering , gross , mystical , nude , one of the roughs , a kosmos , disly , fleshy , sensual , no more modest than immodest ' being (qtd in

Price , 1996 ,

.164 . In the same statement , he proposed to produce texts of the same manner . In this sense , one may state that Whitman conception of literary art involves a close interrelationship between the author and the text to the extent that the text is to be seen as a manifestation of the author 's self . This is best understood within the context of Whitman 's scientific determinism

At the onset , it is important to lay down a definition of determinism According to The American College Encyclopedic Dictionary determinism refers to the doctrine that neither outer events nor human choices are uncaused , but are the results of antecedent conditions , physical or psychological (qtd in McDonald , 2007 ,

.29 . Determinism may thereby be seen as a philosophical belief that all events are predetermined Otherwise called the doctrine of necessity , determinism assumes the existence of a determining factor [whether in the form of God , laws of physics , psychological or social conditioning etc]...