WWQR > Vol. 2 (1984) > No. 3
Abstract
Defends "Passage to India" against previous critics by offering a reading emphasizing Whitman's own identification with Columbus and his underlying goal in the poem to express "the essential ultimate me": a vision of the poet as threefold reconciler "between Western and Eastern halves of humankind, between humankind and Nature, and between humankind and God."
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Copyright © 1984 by The University of Iowa.
Recommended Citation
Doudna, Martin K.. "“The Essential Ultimate Me”: Whitman’s Achievement in “Passage to India”." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2 (Fall 1984), 1-9.
Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/vol2/iss3/2
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