And it is only through spiritual regeneration that man can complete his quest - and the full, uninhibited experience of sex is seen as the first step to spiritual regeneration.Menk opposes terrorism and has pledged his aid in curbing religious extremism in the Maldives. On 31 March 2018, he urged Liberian Muslims to avoid Muslim-Christian violence, arguing that Muslims and Christians are brothers and sisters from one father, the prophet Adam. He blames western media for misleading the world that Muslims are generally terrorists. According to Gulf News, Menk said that everyone on this earth is a part of a family and has one maker, therefore, no one has the right to force any belief or faith on another. Man finds fulfillment in sex and should thus rejoice in it, for it is only through physical love that man can take his place in the cycle of life. Whitman thinks that procreation is a creative act, an act of spiritual regeneration. The theme of procreation in these poems was revolutionary at the time of their first publication.
He should be proud of his heritage and of the "Adamic" in him. Thus, man is not born debased as a result of Original Sin. Man will then be reborn through this glorification of his body, for the human body is as sacred as the spirit. Adam's children can regain this lost paradise not by denying the flesh, which had been a Puritan belief, but by accepting it. He asserts that it is not Adam but Adam's children who have really lost the Garden of Eden. Whitman reverses this traditional Christian tenet. Man is therefore a born sinner, and his only hope of salvation lies in the grace of God, attained through Jesus Christ. This act of disobedience resulted in Original Sin, the inheritance of humanity. Adam and Eve, falling prey to Satan's temptation, disobeyed the divine command and ate the forbidden fruit of knowledge. Whitman uses many Christian concepts in his own unique way to express his individual precepts for mankind.įundamental to Christian belief is the story of the Fall of Man, interpreted either literally or symbolically. The themes are dealt with through imagery rich in Christian tradition. The major themes of Children of Adam are procreation and physical love between man and woman. In the 1892 edition, the group consists of sixteen poems. In 1867, these poems, after a few changes, were retitled Children of Adam. Whitman: The Quintessential American PoetĪ group of fifteen poems in the 1860 version of Leaves of Grass was entitled Enfans d'Adam.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.
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