Whitman’s Themes
•Transcendent power of love, brotherhood, and comradeship
•Imaginative projection into others’ lives
•Optimistic faith in democracy and equality
•Belief in regenerative and illustrative powers of nature and its value as a teacher •Equivalence of body and soul and the unabashed exaltation of the body and sexuality
Whitman had many themes in his poetry; these are only a few.

For example, in section 48 of “Song of Myself”:

I have said that the sould is not more than the body
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud
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And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.