Shall I pray? Shall we venerate and stay ceremonious? (part 20)
He has learned from the world’s religions although he frequently challenges religion in “Song of Myself, ” it’s important to remember that this is a religious poem in many ways, and Whitman feels. He’s drunk deeply of Christian some some some ideas like divine mysteries and need for faith and hope. He’s great faith in the region of the entire world and will not think, like Shakespeare’s atheistic Macbeth, that the whole world is merely a scam that is big.
I will be the poet associated with the physical human anatomy, And I will be the poet of this Soul.
The pleasures of paradise are beside me, plus the problems of hell are with me, The first I graft while increasing upon myself…. The latter I result in a brand new tongue. (part 21)
Among the jobs with this poem would be to simply simply take religious tips to an alternate degree – to change them into an admiration for the spirituality for the moment that is present. Today’s provides the unity of human anatomy and heart, as well as paradise and hell. Except that hell is a conventional concept which should be “translated” right into a brand new language.
We heard that which was stated for the world, Heard it and been aware of a few thousand years; It is middling well so far as it goes…. But is that most?
Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding in the beginning the old careful hucksters, The most they provide for mankind and eternity significantly less than a spirt of my personal videos of housewives having sex seminal damp, using myself the precise measurements of Jehovah and laying them away, Lithographing Kronos and Zeus their son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris and Isis and Belus and Brahma and Adonai, in my own portfolio placing Manito loose, and Allah for a leaf, as well as the crucifix etched, With Odin, together with hideous-faced Mexitli, and all sorts of idols and images, Honestly using all of them for just what they have been worth, rather than a cent morefor themselves, (section 41, Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day, Admitting they bore mites as for unfledged birds who have now to rise and fly and sing)
(más…)