Every Atom | No. 63
Introduction to Every Atom by project curator Brian Clements
Writers make choices and the poet here announces a crucial one of his. Traditional religion speaks of the beginning and the end, the supernatural events of creation and final judgment. In nearly every line of this poem Whitman declares that traditional religious talkers separate what should be joined—God and humanity, the natural and the supernatural, this world and the next. When one refuses to speak of the beginning or the end, only an earthy grace will do, though a grace which, in all its materiality, will be no less amazing.
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