I am the poet of the woman the same as the man[ .] (Whitman , 42 ) Democracy thus is extended to everything in the universe , from men and women being equal to each other , to more abstract notions like that of the beginning being the same as the end , death the same as life , and even heaven and hell can be said to be equal . The fact that Whitman refers to heaven and hell as being equal or as coexisting in...











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