This lends to quite the subversion of expectations when dealing with this age’s expectations, much less its principles of study. It might be challenging to see poets as the navigators of “reality and souls,” as Whitman so professes, or even presumptuous in nature, granted its context. This does effectively remain a logical derision from what Emerson was working with, and, despite being grandiose in itself, this vested detail is philosophic as it is dutifully fastened with our reality, and how its intricacies then truly function by the poetic structure. Whereas Emerson would appear to portray the “greatest poet” as one who comes begotten to duties and responsibilities among the others, Whitman, too, seems to take this definition and work as
