"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman

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"Walt Whitman, in "Leaves of Grass", offers a celebration of life, death, and everything in between. Whitman writes almost literally about everything under the sun, although his primary subjects are humanity and nature. His poems are affirmations of the goodness and abundance of life on every level---physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual.

The style Whitman uses is almost Biblical in its rhythms and stateliness, but the poet does not mean to put himself above the reader in any way. Instead, he argues that all human beings are brothers and sisters together in the adventure of life, none superior to any other. His poems are idealistic and religious in the sense that he approves and praises everything in life and in the world, but especially the human being, spiritual and physical: "I am the poet of the body,/ And I am the poet of the..."

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