Essays on Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman, considered to be the frontrunner in the establishment of the Modernism Era of literature, often wrote about the connectivity of everyone in the whole world. Every person, he believed, was linked (not physically) to each other and how nature also combined with humans...

During the 17th century, Walt Whitman wrote his most well-known work, Leaves of Grass, which is a collection of his poems. These poems conveyed an idea of transcendentalism. Walt Whitman, along with two other transcendentalists, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, questioned the way...

Upon reading the Calamus cluster, one poem that stood out to me was “Whoever You Are Holding Me Now In Hand.” The poem, one of the longer ones in the group, features Walt addressing the reader who seems unable to release him, and follows the...

The Puritans of New England called their home, “A city upon a hill”. They put themselves on a pedestal, and this depicts Puritan values and characteristics. If someone lives “upon a hill”, they are watching everyone around them. In Puritan society, people were aware they...