| Whitman’s Themes |
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| • | Transcendent
power of love, brotherhood, and |
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| comradeship |
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| • | Imaginative
projection into others’ lives |
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| • | Optimistic
faith in democracy and equality |
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| • | Belief
in regenerative and illustrative powers of |
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| nature
and its value as a teacher |
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| • | Equivalence
of body and soul and the unabashed |
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| exaltation
of the body and sexuality |
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