Abstract
In By Blue Ontario’s Shore,Walt Whitman offers his vision of the public role of the poet in a situation of conflict and diversity. The poet, he says, may bring souls together in a way that coercion or a legal code (“paper and seal”) cannot. The poet can bind us together like “the limbs of the body or the fibres of plants” because he has the “eye to pierce the deepest deeps....” [38], pp. 312–313). About the poet Whitman writes:
He is no arguer, he is judgment...
He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun falling round a helpless thing...
He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots. ([38], p. 313)
If detached, purely intellectual, abstract, deductive reasoning about universals was the winner in this transcendence-oriented tradition, it is easy, too, to see who the losers were. The losers were stories, and the storytelling imagination and emotions ([30], pp. 385–386).
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Lauritzen, P. (1994). Listening to the Different Voices: Toward a More Poetic Bioethics. In: McKenny, G.P., Sande, J.R. (eds) Theological Analyses of the Clinical Encounter. Theology and Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8386-2_8
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