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Whitman's egalitarian point of view and its legacy. How the violence of the Civil War affected Whitman's vision of democracy, shifting from the optimistic inclusiveness of Song of Myself to the more sober Democratic Vistas and "Reconciliation." Eroticism and the human inspiration for poetry in Leaves of Grass. Whitman's influence on contemporary film, including Richard Kwietniowski's 1997 movie Love and Death on Long Island.
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