2. Whitman believed in everyone being connected
together in some way, which is what a
transcendentalist would believe.
“And that all men ever born are also my brothers, and the
women my sisters and lovers…” (Pg. 1333).
He also has many more quotes like this to show his divine
connection with everyone and everything.
CONSCIOUSNESS
3. Whitman’s religious views also point to
transcendentalism. He talks about being connected
with everyone, but he also talks about God being in
everything and everyone.
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God
in the least” (Pg. 1372).
“ I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and
each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see
God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God
dropt in the street, and every one is sign’d by God’s name”
(Pg. 1372).
RELIGION
4. The transcendentalist view of looking inside
yourself to find the truth instead of a religion is
also what Walt Whitman clearly believed in.
“Divine I am inside and out, and I make holy whatever I
touch or am touch’d from, The scent of these arm-pits
aroma finer than prayer, This head more than
churches, bibles, and all the creeds” (Pg. 1347).
INTUITION
5. I really enjoyed reading Walt Whitman’s poetry. I
usually do not like poetry because I never
understand the depth of what a writer is
saying, but I was happily surprised at how easy it
was to interpret Whitman.
6. Moreland, Clark. “Lecture 2.1: Striking Out on Our Own: Ralph Waldo
Emerson.” The University of Texas of the Permian Basin. October 7, 2013.
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Krupat, Robert S. Levine, Mary Loeffelholz, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, and
Patricia B. Wallace. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 8th ed. Vol. B.
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