Song Of Myself By Walt Whitman

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The political views that Walt Whitman seem to have was that every matter in relation with politics, had to be in the hand with democracy. He was an ardent believer of democracy, saw it this way because he thought it was a way of experiencing the world. Even though he doesn’t talk much about politics in his poems, the most implicit ideas have to deal with democracy. "Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic… Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." Section 6 of Song of Myself. He thinks there is a kind of universal language for equality among everyone. Grass is a democratic plant because it grows everywhere, and because eventually we start from the grass and end in the grass. Basically in the things