Polarities And Coherencies In Leaves Of Grass

One of the fascinations, also the mystifying dispositions of Leaves of Grass is the co-existence of pairs of concepts with neat polarities. This remarkable feature of polarities in one entity is often being described with words like tolerance, the heart with the scope for the whole universe or a cosmopolitan outlook etc, that is, the overly-praised word "diversity". This dialectic approach to Leaves of Grass will inevitably result in a truncated understanding of Whitman's will of power and determination, and a sense of condescension or patronization within the readers, probably also some suspicion over the poet's stature of thoughts.Therefore, this paper endeavors to explore the polarities and possible unities in the higher sense from few fundamental key aspects in Leaves of Grass:the concept of "Myself" in Leaves of Grass, the relationship between "Myself" and "En-masse", and the two contradictory notions of "Myself" from "Song of Myself" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life".