Walt Whitman’s poetry and essays weave complex rhetorical links between American nature, the human body, and democracy.2 At the conclusion of his autobiographical collection of prose, Specimen Days 1882 , Whitman lucidly cemented these links in an essay titled “Nature and Democracy—Morality.” The poet, “before departure,” emphasized his belief that democracy, “as manifested in the grand races of mechanics and work people,” needs to be recharged, “fibred, vitalized, by regular contact with out-door light and air and growths, farm-scenes, animals, fields, trees, birds [….]” 200 .
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Research Article |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 1 Nisan 2014 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2014 Sayı: 39 |
JAST - Journal of American Studies of Turkey