The Exhilaration of Death in Walt Whitman s Poetry

This paper tackles Walt Whitman (1819-1892) as a celebrator of death and immortality. His Leaves of Grass is the main evidence of this approach. It contains more than two hundredwords and synonyms of death and mortality. Hence, to show Whitman s appreciation of this issue, light is shed on a handful of his poems. Moreover, factors that shaped and enhanced his interest in death will be stated and manifested.