Whitman's American Experience and Democracy and Divine Literatus in Democratic Vistas

Abstract

Whitman gave a new order in the political turmoil and division of US society and continued to reflect on the realistic foundation with the utopian interest, such as the analysis of the self and the morality to be equipped to achieve the ideal of democracy ideally. His work Democratic Vistas is basically a reflection of ideal ideals and a new search. After experiencing the Civil War as opposed to ideological early design work, he presents ideas and cultural programs that he urgently needs to turn the United States into a new nation and turn the public into a new humanoid type. In this work he presents the three stages of the present America as an ideal nation, in its own terms the New World. According to him, 1. the establishment of a ‘political foundation’ 2. the realization of material prosperity 3. the gradual rise of religious democracy. Divine Literature to him was not only his concrete solution for American democracy but America's final hope for enacting communication between Body and Soul. He emphasizes Personalism as the basic principle of democracy. In addition, human beings and gods are one person, discovering the identity of God and humanity through human beings, and such assertion asserts consciousness of divine reality.