Integrated Democracy as a Weapon of Interpersonal Skill in Walt Whitman’s Poetry

Abstract

American democracy draws Whitman attraction most. This was the ever-burning theme of his poetry. He embraced it and expressed it in its all manifestation-fields, trees, animals, birds, farms, light, air, sea, men, women, and their politics and social transactions, factories, workshops, offices, stories, streets, critics, plains, the countryside and what not. Whitman considered these and many more items as the integral parts of democracy in America. Whitman envisioned democracy not just as a political system but as a way of experiencing the world. In the early nineteenth century, people still harbored many doubts about whether the United States could survive as a country and about whether democracy could thrive as a political system. Whitman tried to remove all kinds of confusion regarding this issue. Whitman tried to be democratic in both life and poetry. He imagined democracy as a way of interpersonal interaction and as a way for individuals to integrate their beliefs into their everyday lives.