With All Thy Gifts
With All Thy Gifts - meaning Summary
A Nation's Lacking Gift
Whitman addresses America as richly endowed with power, wealth, and reach but poses a moral and civic question: despite material gifts, the nation may lack an essential human gift—the "towering Feminine" and mothers fit for the country. The poem argues that national strength is incomplete without the health, beauty, and completion represented by women, framing the absence as a profound societal shortcoming.
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