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Essay Galaxy - Whitman's Democracy
Whitman's Democracy
"I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I
will Accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same
terms."
This is Whitman's expression of the idea of democracy taken from
"Song of Myself." In this all encompassing interpretation Whitman says
that the freedom offered by democracy is for all not a chosen few. It
included all people, not renouncing those of other races, creeds, or social
standings. Examples of this acceptance are scattered through many of the
poems Whitman wrote.
In his poem "To a Common Prostitute" Whitman wrote: "Not till The
sun excludes you do I exclude you." He has accepted the women as a
prostitute, but this also conveys Whitman's ideas of democracy. The notion
that all people should be covered under the cover of freedom. The sun is
used as a metaphor for democracy in this poem, as it should....
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