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  • Essay / Egalitarianism in the Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

    In the works of Walt Whitman, he expresses his egalitarianism or his belief in the equality of all, especially in political, social or economic life, in his epic book called Leaves of Grass. His strong point of view in the poem I Sing the Body Electric is expressed through sexuality, body attributes, and political views. In the poem I Sing the Body Electric, Walt Whitman expresses many good things about the body. It's as if he values ​​them almost on the glory that each attribute of a human being has. In this poem, he praises the body based on the significance of creating relationships between humans. It describes more than just different attributes and organs of the body, but it makes the whole thing seen as a whole as something meaningful. As everything in the human body works and intertwines, the poem becomes something bigger than expected. In order to describe sexuality, he begins to describe the bodies of women and men in the passages. Women are known to be sexualized objects in the eyes of men. When Whitman begins to pronounce the "divine nimbus", he begins to speak of the sexual attraction he has for them and the fact that they are maternal as a "birth bath". When he goes deeper into the poem, he shows the sexual desire of women. “crazy filaments” basically describing the allure of even the slightest glance at a woman’s body. All this shows the inequality that men's looks give women and the fact that they tend to throw women into the category. sexual objects. He talks in depth about the temptation of the omen body which shows the difference between how men felt and the inequality of things at the time. When Whitman then starts talking about "Ebb piqued" and ends with "jui delusional.... .. middle of paper ...... we have and all you can do is one of the ways they use the body to sell it If they are capable and capable of giving birth to many generations of slaves. The body is a sanctuary of the future. “The body can connect both erotically and spiritually with the bodies of others. . In all this, the role of the body as a channel between the soul and the world remains crucial. The emphasis is on the woman's body and a little on that of the man. , between the erotic body and the political body because if “the body of man is sacred and that of woman is sacred”, then all bodies are sacred, even those belonging to “dull-faced immigrants who come from. disembark on the dock.'” Whitman's work simply attempts to find the balance of the whole ordeal of attributes towards the slave industry. He is against it but still talks about it showing his humanity.