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This 5 page paper discusses and analyzes Whitman's A Backward Glance over Traveled Roads. Quotes cited from the text. Bibliographpy lists 2 sources.
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soul, is a major theme in the works of Whitman. The universal truths surrounding his individual discoveries about the nature of a persons soul and the hidden desires of ones
heart have often been rendered into the tiniest of creatures or the most interesting worn pathways. In Whitmans essay, A Backward Glance Over Traveled Roads, Whitman retrospectively contemplates what poetry
has meant to him and how it has impacted his life. Having lived a rather colorful and tumultuous life, it seems that with this collection of essays he is saying
his good-byes. Often the object of hostility for his often frank poetry, Whitman makes no excuses for them, instead he seems to adopt an attitude most like a tired prophet;
of someone who has delivered a message that none wanted to hear, but delivered it was. "Let me not dare, here or anywhere, for my own purposes, or any
purposes, to attempt the definition of Poetry, nor answer the question what it is. Like Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate
meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule or convention ever so absolutely obtain but some
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on
what poetry has meant for him. In fact, at the beginning of the collection he admits that he has been listening to one of his favorite songs, looking at his
books that he has written and recalling what has happened during his lifetime. He seems to be saying that the act of creating a poem was an inherent need that
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