Through the extensive storytelling form embedded in Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and How it feels to be colored me by Zora Neale Hurston, the common both works encompass a stylistic writing that draws imagery to circumstance. With comparable insight from a host of scholars, both of these short stories reveal a theme that examines the essence of human circumstance vs. the realities of Nature. While Walt Whitman directly exhibits the theme of man vs. nature through the story. He explicates this challenge in a manner that reveals the true beauty in nature. He exonerates the idea that the true beauty of nature is in understanding that life is innately good and plentiful, though once one accepts this beauty this true depiction is revealed.
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While it has no distinct artificial odor or saturation this makes nature more abundant and beautiful. So, while Whitman begins the story expressing self satisfaction and the beauty of life, he also reveals an image of what truly makes life beautiful and that is nature. As scholar Ezra Greenspan’s sourcebook and Critical Edition discusses the poems controversial context as it has been considered an American “ur poem”, it is because it presents Whitman as a true American poet who understood the context of life is what propels society forward. What Greenspan expresses through his scholarly studies are the ideas of this poem causing debate in terms of Song of Myself liberating adaptability. Greenspan acknowledges that, “ as different ideological camps, for instance, feminism and ethnic studies, have alternately found the poem’s politics stifling or liberating. Just the same, there has been a broad consensus view that identifies this poem as the “core” text of modern poetry” (Greenspan). Moreover, the grandeur of this poem enticing the likes of poets such as Emerson, Whitman realized very soon that his expressive mannerisms throughout his body of work is what will continue to drive him as one of the most noted poets of in history. Furthermore, readers gain access into the expressiveness of Whitman, Greenspan also notes that like many other works of Whitman, his uncompromising challenge to discuss debatable realities of modernism is another element that calls for this poem to be considered an act of its
While it has no distinct artificial odor or saturation this makes nature more abundant and beautiful. So, while Whitman begins the story expressing self satisfaction and the beauty of life, he also reveals an image of what truly makes life beautiful and that is nature. As scholar Ezra Greenspan’s sourcebook and Critical Edition discusses the poems controversial context as it has been considered an American “ur poem”, it is because it presents Whitman as a true American poet who understood the context of life is what propels society forward. What Greenspan expresses through his scholarly studies are the ideas of this poem causing debate in terms of Song of Myself liberating adaptability. Greenspan acknowledges that, “ as different ideological camps, for instance, feminism and ethnic studies, have alternately found the poem’s politics stifling or liberating. Just the same, there has been a broad consensus view that identifies this poem as the “core” text of modern poetry” (Greenspan). Moreover, the grandeur of this poem enticing the likes of poets such as Emerson, Whitman realized very soon that his expressive mannerisms throughout his body of work is what will continue to drive him as one of the most noted poets of in history. Furthermore, readers gain access into the expressiveness of Whitman, Greenspan also notes that like many other works of Whitman, his uncompromising challenge to discuss debatable realities of modernism is another element that calls for this poem to be considered an act of its