Walt Whitman Transcendentalism

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Walt Whitman is yet another significant name in the history of transcendentalism. Much like Emerson and Thoreau, Whitman was highly fascinated by nature and the lessons it offered to mankind. The works of Walt Whitman were primarily poems, many of which were free verse. Whitman differs from Thoreau and Emerson in his view of Religion in that Whitman was a man of exploration and ingenuity. This trait of Whitman is what inspired him to envision and create his own private religion. In his early years Walt Whitman was a Quaker. As a Quaker, Whitman enjoyed the teachings of Elias Hicks a friend of his parents. Hicks preached that man’s only duty on earth was to enjoy life to the fullest and stressed the importance of only following the guidance

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