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    Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence
    Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence
    Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence
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    Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence

    By Tim Kavi

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    Poet Tim Kavi celebrated National Poetry Month 2013 with the publication of this essay on Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence. Basically, the essay is a brief discussion of Whitman juxtaposed with one of his most famous poems,"I Sing the Body Electric." This ebook essay should be of interest to Walt Whitman fans, students, (using it as a resource and Study Guide for Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric"), as well as Tim Kavi readers. In this essay, Tim Kavi offers a unique perspective as a poet with a background in existential philosophies and psychology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTiLu Press
    Release dateAug 3, 2013
    ISBN9781301043132
    Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence
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    Tim Kavi

    Tim Kavi is a writer, poet, and teacher. His poetry is most well known for collections that emphasize the Goddess, the Divine Feminine, mysticism, and philosophical themes associated with freedom, dialogue, and dualism/monism. He has published three prior collections: Emerging Goddess (2011), Ascending Goddess (2012), and Lost Love Poems (2012). He has also published an anthology of essays (2013). Forthcoming collections include Poems of Protest, Revealed Goddess, and City of Night-City of Light. Tim is published exclusively by TiLu Press.

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      Walt Whitman - Tim Kavi

      Walt Whitman: The Embodied Poet of Existence

      (An Essay On Whitman’s ‘I Sing the Body Electric’)

      By Tim Kavi

      Copyright 2013

      TiLu Press | Shanghai, CN

      For Inquiries: info@tilupress.com

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.

      No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved.

      Walt Whitman (1819-1892), the American poet from New York’s Long Island, part of an emerging post civil war America, chose to voice his poetic and mystic voice in a manner that showed his independent thought, free speech, and unique poetic vision. He advocated free style prose in his poems, but yet they seemed to have a great rhythm. Misunderstood by many in his time because of his emphasis upon the body and sensual experience, (sometimes equating body with soul, or an embodiment of soul), for he wrote, I am the poet of the body, and I am poet of the soul (Allen, 1961; p. 140). Whitman may instead have been speaking of things in terms of his understanding of the connections between the soul and body, the self and others, and even the Self as subject relating to other subject; that spoke of deeper unities.

      Whitman may have also anticipated later existentialist thought that spoke of the primacy of human existence as reflected in embodiment of soul and purpose, and although he was criticized by many in his time as being a mere sensualist or fleshly, and perhaps even a hedonist, Whitman was rightfully as much a free spirit as Nietzsche —where the latter was emerging at

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