Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
A transcendentalist, Whitman abandoned the conventional themes of vehement appraisal of nations and warfare popular in the mid-19th century and instead envelopes his fervent adoration of the United States with naturalism doctrines. "Leaves of Grass" is an amalgamation of the poet's thirst for unrestricted discourse and his admiration of "beauty for beauty's sake"--- a praise for the bucolic! "No myth, no legend, or romance, nor euphemism, nor rhyme" is the reflexive statement delivered by the ex-editor on his poetry. A literary reactionary like Whitman is averse to stock ornamentation--- the truest countercurrent innovator in the publishing world. As I traversed through the Great Plains and seen the quotidian, billowing smoke of New England cottages, I am etching out a sketch of the great American landscape. This isn't to say that he doesn't talk about the dissolution and gestation of states at all, it is simply that in the larger Whitman