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Essay Archive - Whitman's Democracy
Whitman's Democracy
"I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy,
By God! I will Accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart
of on the same terms."
This is Whitman's expression of the idea of democracy taken from "Song
of Myself." In this all encompassing interpretation Whitman says that the
freedom offered by democracy is for all not a chosen few. It included all people,
not renouncing those of other races, creeds, or social standings. Examples of
this acceptance are scattered through many of the poems Whitman wrote.....
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