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Walt Whitman

In Our Time

CHAPTER

Emerson's Optimism in America

After the Civil War is when the Whitman myth really starts to take off, says Melvin. He writes so many things that speak across purposes and he presents it to you and you have to deal with it. There's a photograph that's taken of him with a butterfly perched on his finger. It's a fake butterfly, but it looks really good. But what was his attitude towards same-sex love? That's a really interesting question,. And it's difficult for us to think ourselves into the attitudes of towardsSame-sex love in the 19th century.

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