: Walt Whitman :Song Of Myself:Whitman's Treatment of Love and sex in his poetry.
Modern Poetry: Walt Whitman: Song Of Myself Question : Discuss Whitman’s treatment of love and sex in his poetry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answer : Whitman conceived of the universe as a whole in which everything, created by a Divine Sprit, had its place and purpose. Love and sexual love is necessary to his understanding of the universe. In Whitman’s poetry, there is plenty of love and sex- in theme, meaning and imagery.
In Whitman’s poetry, we come across a revolutionary frankness in dealing with love, especially sexual love. Whitman emphasized that he was the poet both of the “body and the soul”. He sang “the body electric.” He was pioneer in inaugurating a better respect for the body and speaking for sexual delight as one of the blessings of human life. In Section 21 , he declares the quality of man and woman. He does not find copulatio