Which details from “Song of Myself” reflect characteristics of transcendentalism?
Select the two correct answers.
Responses
The poems portray people in a positive light: they are using their free will for the good of humankind.
In each poem, the spiritual world is featured as real but unpredictable and sometimes threatening.
Whitman uses lines like “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,” to highlight the conflict created by opposing sides of human nature.
Whitman emphasizes the power of human intuition with lines like “The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place.”