Question

4. Does Whitman believe that life would offer much more
when he stops to bother about material pursuits? How
different does he think it would be and why?​

Answer 1

Does Whitman believe that life would offer much more

when he stops to bother about material pursuits? How

different does he think it would be and why?

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Walt Whitman feels as if he is just as great as Shakespeare, perhaps even greater. Although one of America's greatest self-promoters of that era, Walt Whitman was a conceited man. Whitman sees himself as the voice of America. He claims to be a common man who has the same feelings as all Americans.Whitman is considered the father of free-verse poetry. But he was much more than that. He introduced readers to previously forbidden topics -- sexuality, the human body and its functions -- and incorporated unusual themes, such as debris, straw and leaves, into his work.Religion. ... Whitman was a religious skeptic: though he accepted all churches, he believed in none. God, to Whitman, was both immanent and transcendent and the human soul was immortal and in a state of progressive development.Whitman claims that "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." In other words, life continues and goes on in ways that we do not, and perhaps cannot, expect, and nothing ever truly disappears.

Answer 2

Answer:

Walt Whitman feels as if he is just as great as Shakespeare, perhaps even greater. Although one of America's greatest self-promoters of that era, Walt Whitman was a conceited man. Whitman sees himself as the voice of America. He claims to be a common man who has the same feelings as all Americans.