He declares that all men are divine and possess powers of revelation equal to any god's. In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved. Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,Ä«uying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, In section 41 the poet assumes the role of the prophet of a new religion, incorporating all religions: By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me." Let the physician and the priest go home." He would seize "the descending man and raise him with resistless will. In this process, the "common modes" assume "new forms." He answers the call of the needy and the despairing and even becomes a healer to the dying: "To any one dying, thither I speed/. He transforms the common into the Divine. These three sections express the idea of the poet as a sort of superman, flowing through life and the world doing good. Whitman: The Quintessential American Poet.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?.
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