defending Walt Whitman

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Perfect discipline is an attainable reality , but if it is not there , no alternative exists but to carry on with the available discipline Similarly , prefect democracy is the dream of a true democrat but one is aware that the path to achieve it is strewn with thorns . The suave politicians and the literary stalwarts all over the world are carrying on the conversation that Whitman initiated over 150 years ago - a dialogue about democracy , poetry , love , death , and the endless permutations of life that he believed would define

America and eventually produce a republic equal to its ideals (Sherman Walter Whitman (May 31 , 1819 - March 26 , 1892 ) was an American poet essayist , journalist , and humanist . He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism , incorporating both views in his works . Whitman is among the most influential and controversial poets in the American canon . His work has been described as a "rude shock " and "the most audacious and debatable contribution yet made to American literature (Walt ) Sherman Alexie was born in October 1966 . His famous quote reads like the mission statement of an institution . His eternal craze for literary creations and the vast areas of literary subjects that he wishes to tackle is reflected in this statement : "I know I have so much left to say and I don 't know how much time I have left to say it all " This statement indicates the thinking style and beliefs of Alexie are deeply impacted and influenced by Whitman . In the poem , Defending Walt Whitman , he makes the explicit mention of Whitman 's ideals and ideologies , and how they have influenced the thought process of the Americans , and consequently their action processes for the last fifteen decades . Alexie highlights that Whitman is deeply concerned about the social imperfections in the American society . To achieve the level of democracy in the real sense people need to be basically sound and industrious , and basic conditions need to be created for the people to become basically sound and industrious . Communal and individual democracies are alternative beats of the same heart of a Nation and they are achieved through justice and fair-play . Deficiency in any one of them is not good for the overall health of the Nation

In a Nation , if the individual suffers , one need to assume that either the democratic principles are deficient , or the implementation process is corrupt and defective . If the society as a whole suffers that can not be a perfect democracy . It is like the scale of justice Both arms of the scale (in this context the society and the individual are equally important to strike the correct balance . Whitman 's continual wrestling with the problems and challenges of the emerging American democracy and the developing American democratic art has had a surprisingly widespread impact on other countries as well , where his democratic ideas and radical poetics have taken root and emerged in new hybrids as his work mixes with other national literatures...