![]() In Whitman’s writing, he analyzes the human experience as it is shared by everyone. Whitman’s courageous language, use of free verse enforces a positive message to everybody, and especially to those LGBTQ+ individuals who struggle with shame and acceptance with themselves or within a society, he does that while also encouraging people to act in order to shape the government as a reflection of its people. ![]() These are essential concepts of democracy and transcendentalism. This bravery communicates a message of self-love and a sense of oneness between every person on this planet. Whitman admirably chose not to censor his poetry to fit society’s hateful ideologies as he expresses his beautiful relationship with another man. His boss even fired him from his job as a clerk. ![]() ![]() Reviewers called his poetry “obscene” and “that horrible sin not to be named among Christians’” (Schmidgall). When Walt Whitman first published his 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, over a hundred years before the society even considered accepting homosexual behaviors, it included the “Calamus” sequence that describes his romance with another man. Homosexuality has been viewed as unnatural and immoral throughout history. ![]()
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