Hindu Mysticism in the Poetry of Walt Whitman

Abstract

All religions preach different ways to attain salvation or enlightenment, for which Whitman undertook spiritual voyage as delineated in his poetry. A vein of Hindu mysticism runs through the poetry of Whitman, like a mystic he believes in the existence of the soul, God, Divine spirit, in the immortality of the human soul and in the capacity of human being to establish a communication between his spirit and the Divine Spirit.