" ""hat you are here?that life exists, and identity; That the
the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.?
Because grass grows in and around the graves, there is life after death . . .
Celebrating the self, the human body, and the soul, Perceiving divinity in nature and accepting death as a reality, Obsessed romantically with the physical as well as the spiritual, and Upholding the democratic ideals and accomplishments of America . . .
Walt Whitman?s poems are draped in poetic fancy and are eternal in their essence and beliefs. A collection of his poems, Leaves of Grass is a seminal work in the nineteenth-century American poetry and continues to amass huge readership across generations. "" "