Christ as a Poet-Prophet in “Song of Myself”
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Lim, Jina. “Christ as a Poet-Prophet in “Song of Myself”.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.4 (2011): 115-29. Northrop Frye points out that the content of the Bible describes the procession of revelation, which set up an imaginative framework for the western literature. Walt Whitman, whose poetic concerns are his audience’s spiritual health, longs to become a biblical prophet to American people, and he finds his inspiration for the poet-prophet in Christ, Messiah in the Bible. Whitman’s founding poem, “Song of Myself” is the result of his yearning to express the Christlike poet-prophet in the form of a myth or symbol. He accomplishes this by first identifying Walt Whitman, nineteenth-century American, with everyone, and then relating his development in such a way as to identify him with Christ, proclaiming the individual as his own Messiah. Therefore, “Song of Myself” should be read as one of the great inspired prophetic works in which Whitman himself serves as a holy testament identified with Christ. (KAIST)
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Lim, Jina. “Christ as a Poet-Prophet in “Song of Myself”.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 37.4 (2011): 115-29. Northrop Frye points out that the content of the Bible describes the procession of revelation, which set up an imaginative framework for the western literature. Walt Whitman, whose poetic concerns are his audience’s spiritual health, longs to become a biblical prophet to American people, and he finds his inspiration for the poet-prophet in Christ, Messiah in the Bible. Whitman’s founding poem, “Song of Myself” is the result of his yearning to express the Christlike poet-prophet in the form of a myth or symbol. He accomplishes this by first identifying Walt Whitman, nineteenth-century American, with everyone, and then relating his development in such a way as to identify him with Christ, proclaiming the individual as his own Messiah. Therefore, “Song of Myself” should be read as one of the great inspired prophetic works in which Whitman himself serves as a holy testament identified with Christ. (KAIST)
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