Topic > Egalitarianism in Walt Whitman's Leaves of the Grass

Within the works of Walt Whitman expresses his egalitarianism or belief in the equality of all people, especially in political, social or economic life in his epic book entitled The leaves of grass. His strong point of view in the poem I Sing the Body Electric is expressed through sexuality, body attributes, political opinions. In the poem I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman expresses many qualities of the body. It's as if he appreciates them almost for the glory that every attribute of a human being brings. Within this poem he praises the body based on the significance it has in creating relationships between human beings. It describes more than the different attributes and organs of the body, but makes everything come together as something significant. As everything in the human body functions and intertwines, so does poetry becoming something bigger than expected. To describe sexuality he begins to describe the bodies of women and men within the passages. It is well known that women are sexualized objects in the eyes of men. When Whitman starts talking about the “divine halo,” he starts talking about his sexual attraction to them and how they are maternal as a “birth bath.” When he delves into the poem he shows the sexual desire of the women in there. “crazy strands” which basically describe the allure of the slightest body aspect given by a woman. All of this shows the inequality given to women by men's appearance and the fact that they tend to throw women into the category. of sexual objects. It speaks deeply to the temptation of the omen body which shows the difference in how men felt compared to how unequal things were back then. When Whitman starts talking about "Prickly Ebb" and ends with "delirious jui.... ..half of the paper......su ha and all you can do is one of the ways they use the body to sell If they are capable and capable of giving birth to many generations of slaves. The body is a sanctuary of the future the soul and the world remains crucial”. The focus is on the body of the woman and a little on that of the man. “Why if" the man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred", then all bodies are sacred, even those that belong to the "dull-faced immigrants just landed on the pier". of all the ordeal of attributes towards the industry of slavery. He is against it but still talks about it, showing his humanity.