Release

Although often linked with Emerson’s transcendentalism, Whitman’s has his own color of expression. The very first image of his ideas to me is release. Release, aye, release. How about throw all the cumbrous clothes away and sitting on the band in the woods? Then I saw his figure of individualism.---“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, and I have said that body is not more than the soul, and nothing, not God, is greater than one’s self is…” Soul and body fuse into an individual, which may surpass God in some way. He is also a self-questioner. If he were living today, he might say something about getting rid of the over-materialized world. Back to the nature, feel it with all your skin. Drop down the unnecessary electronic devices and take more time to use your brain to examine yourself. Let the body return to the sacred territory of soul. Whitman think in abstraction, however, who can say it is not a kind of realistic thinking?