| Whitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few American writers who transcended the racial attitudes of his time. He is a great prophet who is celebrating ethnic and racial diversity and embodying egalitarian ideals. What’s stunning is his egalitarian sensibility. This was the most important subject of his poetry. He discussed and described it in almost all natural things and human beings. The fields discussed are trees, animals, birds, air, sea, men, women, their politics, their relations, offices, streets, critics, plains and countryside. Whitman foresaw egalitarianism not just as a political system but as a way of experiencing the world. He tried to be egalitarian in both his life and poetry. He imagined egalitarianism as the way of interpersonal communication. |