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A five page paper which analyses Walt Whitman’s preface to Leaves of Grass, looking specifically at the way in which he deals with the topics of history and the past, the function of the poet, and the importance of the common man in relation to the United States as a whole.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLwhitman.rtf
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whole. Bibliography lists 1 source. JLwhitman.wps "The 1855 Preface to Walt Whitmans Leaves of Grass" By , United Kingdom, For - 7-Jan-13
To Use This Report Correctly, Please Whitmans 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass is in many
ways a eulogy to the countryside, the poets and the ordinary people of America, expressing as it does the poets celebration of the land and its power, the inner fire
at the heart of humanity, and the way in which the poet captures and encapsulates the elements around him and translates them into a form which can be comprehended by
all. He begins by demonstrating that the America in which he lives accepts the necessity for the past, as a foundation on which the
present is built, and as the basis from which the new life of a modern country is developed. He accepts that there is
detritus and accretion from old, uninformed ways of life which still colour peoples opinions and behaviour, and shows that the thoughts and lifestyles of the past were appropriate for the
time, as well as giving rise by their death to the new life, the "stalwart heir who approaches" (Whitman 1) of the new America.
He asserts that there are lessons to be learned from "other politics ... castes ... or the old religions" (Whitman 1) and that these prior ways of
thought and being should not, therefore, be discarded or rejected, as they are a way of informing the present. However, he also points
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