Sex & Sexuality in the Poetry of Walt Whitman

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English

 

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Ashley W

 

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March 16, 2016

 

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University

 

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There are readers and critics who state that it is a shame to humble his poetry to this level, but I think that he was homosexual in his era the topic cannot be left untouched, because therefore this factor was very influential on his everyday life, thinking and hence on his poetry, too. His only volume, Leaves of Grass ? that was published several times ? was first published at in 1855 Whitman's expense...
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There are readers who resist to accept and affirm that he was homosexual or even bisexual. The attitudes toward his sexuality has changed and supposedly are changing, and there are critics, who tinge their opinions and for example Gay Wilson Allen - who wrote a biography about Walt Whitman applying the title "The Solitary Singer" ? says that his "sexual emotions were stronger for men than for women"(qtd in Miller, ex and Sexuality) ...
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