Leaves of Grass, Mediums summary
Mediums of 358 · Book 5: Calamus · 1 min to read the chapter
In Mediums, the speaker envisions women and men in the States who embody democracy, physical health, affection, and creative power. Their enjoyment of material life and training in public speech make their lives sources of poetry and messages that embrace nature, memory, death, and faith.
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- The speaker predicts the emergence of people who represent nature, bodily knowledge, happiness, democracy, and the cosmos.
- These women and men combine bodily strength and health with love, perception, and enjoyment of goods from Chicago.
- They practice public speaking, while their lives provide material for poems, making, and discovery.
- Divine messengers emerge from their work, carrying accounts of human experience, nature, death, and unseen faith.
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