The personality Whitman creates for himself

Introduction

Walt Whitman Lawrence can be defined as the greatest modern poets, and he encouraged the ongoing rediscovery in American criticism, the real Whitman, "the great artist of subtlety, nuance, the subtle evasion, the difficulty tight, and above all, originality canonical ". His poetry “Song of Myself” (1855) consists of fifty-two poems with 1346 lines, which focus on one goal that is to praise self. In this celebration of self that makes the reader perceives that the core is the individual, a self that becomes for fellowship in the other, and Whitman stands as the voice of these. Through individual, multiple echoes and voices will be resolved. The poetry of “Song of Myself” shows an optimistic tone, the poet sings the trust that the man must have in himself- greeting the new man of democracy (Gay, 132-135).

Whitman starts the journey through the poetic writing, which establishes the position of the self in the cosmos, its gestation and welcome to the world, their relationships with others - with his Soul, Nature and History. The fifty-two sections express an exquisite musicality and outstanding handling of language, and an elevation of self raising the dignity of human beings. This song faith pervades the human spirit bright confidence to learn to live properly in this world is theirs. Indeed, the verses of Walt Whitman expressed a deep sensuality, his poetry has intensely erotic images, which can be found in several poems of Leaves of Grass, a work which is contained the “Song of Myself”. Whitman greets the soul through his writing and eroticism present in his poetry, also salutes the body through images impetuous, sensitive and wonderfully evocative to the reader (Emory, 64-71). This study aims to delve into the personality of the author in Song of Myself, traveling through the sensuality offered by the poetic voice. To perform this analysis of the personality in the Song of Myself, I have chosen 2 sections of poetry, to study the personality of Walt Whitman.

Discussion

The artist is always aware of the power of suggestion of words, that is, all they can suggest and the strength that lies in these same advances. For Whitman, the poet must make the words that convey strength, making the words sing, dance, blood, sail boats, carry the masculine and feminine, kiss and do everything that the woman, human or natural powers can do. From this perspective, we see how the word takes on surprising strength and how through it, Whitman manages to convey his personality through his verses, and is the same sensuality and sexuality, which gives strength to his poems (Sharma, 44-48).

In Section 5, (divided into three stanzas and 17 verses) the poet enters a trance state, disrupting the poetic stream to establish peace with himself through autoerotic sexuality, which can be understood as masturbatory. The lyric speaker makes contact with his Alma and talk to him directly: "I believe in you my soul, my other self is not to humiliate you, and you should ...