"For You O Democracy" by Walt Whitman

 

For You O Democracy

Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,

I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,

I will make divine magnetic lands,

With the love of comrades,

With the life-long love of comrades.

 

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,

I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other’s necks,

By the love of comrades,

By the manly love of comrades.

 

For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!

For you, for you I am trilling these songs.

 

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Who wrote the poem "For You O Democracy"?

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)

Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. Whitman is one of the most important American poets, often called the father of free verse. His major poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 at his own expense and became popular and controversial due to its overt sensuality. Whitman greatly admired Abraham Lincoln, and on Lincoln’s death, he wrote famous poems, “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” Modernist poet Ezra Pound called Whitman “America’s poet… He is America.”

"For You O Democracy" explanation

In the poem, the speaker expresses his desire to build a strong, democratic state, based upon love, companionship, and patriotism of people. Whitman was known as a poet of democracy because of his exaltation of democracy, rooted deeply in his faith in the inherent dignity of the common man.