Sexuality and Eroticism in Whitman’s Song of Myself

The Subversion of Sexual Norms in Song of Myself

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…. “The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from, their long hair, little streams passed all over their bodies. An unseen hand also passed over their bodies; it descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs. The young men gloat on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them, They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch, They do not think whom they souse with spray…”(Walt 11)

Whitman’s 1855 edition of Song of Myself is a display of American nationality. Whitman is one of the most revolutionary poets in America and a radical transcendentalist. He fought for democracy, equality and stood up for the rights of the marginalized in the…