Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Wednesday, March 23

We explored further the democratic Transcendentalism of Walt Whitman's poetry. For Whitman (unlike Emerson, for example) being at one with the universe -- or kosmos, in Whitman's term -- is also to be at one with everyone; our common participation in nature is allied with our fundamental equality.

We read sections 15, 16, 17, 21, and 24 of "Song of Myself," taking turns reading lines and stanzas.

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