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Walt Whitman Transcendental Beliefs

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Walt Whitman’s poetry conveys his vision of democracy, a spiritually and socially transcendental political system, through his usage of epanaphora and cataloging, By applying transcendental qualities, such as individuality, the inner-self, and nature, on a national scale, Whitman creates an organic form of democracy that celebrates both the diversity and union of the American people. Epanaphora is the repetition of words at the beginning of two or more successive verses. Catalog verse is the listing of people or abstract qualities that work to emphasize a thematic message. A prominent demonstration of Whitman’s rhetoric and ideology is the poem “For You O Democracy,” written in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. In this work, Whitman
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