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Embodiments of Democratic Vitality
Whitman imagines a new generation of fully embodied Americans who report on nature and society and exemplify democratic vitality. They are physically robust, engaged with material and urban life, trained for public speech, and rooted in sensory experience. From their lives will come poems, public works, and "divine conveyers" who transmit stories and beliefs—trees, animals, death, the future—binding everyday reality to larger spiritual and social meanings.
Read Complete AnalysesTHEY shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness; They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos; They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive; They shall be complete women and men—their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear; They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products—they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city; They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses; Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives—they shall be makers and finders; Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels; Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey’d in gospels —Trees, animals, waters, shall be convey’d, Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be convey’d.
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