휘트먼의 죽음과 재생의 의미 = Walt Whitman's Meanings on Death and Rebirth

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Whitman expressed death and rebirth in his Leaves of Grass. Turning away from the literary tradition in his days, he wrote his poems with various forms of Modern free verse, and frankly approached subjects that were not openly discussed.
Death was explored deeply in his old age. He doubted death annulle Self, but his conmic Self was in contact with immortality. In it, his poet attitude and conception entered the world of mysticism. As for the poet death bestowed all human being sequally and was not a fearful matter Rather, it was a process that gave birth to new life.
In Karma which determines the form of the next reirth, all livingthings were reborn to participate in a process of cosmic evolution. Overcoming fear caused from the fear of death, there was no death in the poet's world. His Leaves of Grass was written with such deep poet mind and imagination. In accordance with such thoughts, his unique poet view which was distinguished from that of his days, was established.