Gods – Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman-Poet

Gods – Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is an American poet. He is a transcendentalist. He advocated free verse. He is among the greatest poets of America.

In his poem, ‘the Gods’, Whitman glorifies Creation as whole and perfect. He talks about wonderful things that inspire him and invokes them to be his Gods. He commands these things to be Godlike to him.

Whitman asks all thoughts of infinity to be his God. He addresses God as the divine lover and perfect comrade. Though God is invisible, He is surely waiting contentedly. Whitman describes God as fair, able, beautiful, satisfied and loving. God is physically complete and spiritually present everywhere.

Whitman calls death as God because it is the gateway to heaven. According to the poet, God is the best and the mightiest of all the known things. God frees us from all bonds. Whitman says that God exists in trusted traditions, progressive ideas, mankind’s hopes and heroic deeds of passionate people. God manifests in the divine earth, Sun and everything including the poet himself.