Spiritualism in the Poetry of Walt Whitman

Abstract

Walt Whitman poem 'Song of Myself ' is the National Epic of the United States. A number of influences operated upon him and went into the making of his genius. A faith in the dignity of the individual and inequality and fraternity are the very life blood of his poetry. He was possibly the first known American poet who read the Hindu scripture and philosophies very keenly. In the poetry of Whitman, death remains a primary concern. He has a very deep and penetrating understanding of death. Walt Whitman, the great American poet attained the spiritual communion by meditation. Walt Whitman the grew American mystic after his spiritual quest undergoes a mystic trance realization of his self with the communion of his own individual self with the cosmic self.