Walt Whitman tries to represent himself as all men and woman. Is he successful? Cite 6 examples from his work

br Unfolded Out of the Folds . In this poem , there is a feeling that he is speaking both as a man and a woman as a man who understands the cyclical development that involves the acceptance of the presence of the essence of woman inside him and as a woman who is celebrating the strength she finds in the realization of her significance in life and in the life of man

Critics attribute to Whitman 's attachment to feminine ideals , not to mention what some analysts believe to be the author 's gender

crisis Whitman 's outright or sublime tone of androgyny in this poem . Given that Whitman saw himself as responding to a spiritual as well as gender crisis in is time , it is not surprising that his recurrent near-obsession with the maternal body persisted , for he hoped that the trope of the maternal body might provide an alternative to the violence of patriarchal language (Pollak , 2000 ,

. 182 ' Some of Whitman 's less popular poems (compared to Leaves of Grass ) also hint the presence of alternating male and female voice in the poetry . Like the poem After the Supper and Talk , wherein it seems like the speaker is sometimes the man who notices the emotional lips repeating (Jensen , 2002 ,

. 114 , and sometimes the woman , who narrates the sorrow of watching someone dear to her leave , without the prospect of returning . While at Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals , Whitman 's use of the term phallic ' and the last line offspring of my loins ' confuses the readers as to the gender of the speaker (the first term was male-centered while the last line of the poem was alluding to a woman giving birth . This was the same dilemma in Among the Multitude , where Whitman speaks sans the clear orientation...