Comparing and contrasting Whitman and Winthrop’s ideas about what America is.

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Comparing and contrasting Whitman and Winthrop’s ideas about what America is
Leypoldt, Günter. “Democracy’s Lawless Music: The Whitmanian Moment In The U.S. Construction Of Representative Literariness.” New Literary History 38.2 (2007): 333-352. Web.
The above article offers insights into Walt Whiteman’s ideology regarding America. According to this article, Whiteman’s literary works were not only a vehicle expressing his political lament but also a political force. He portrays America as a plural noun, a country that isn’t a uniform body but rather a union of disparate parts. He was concerned with the country’s experiment in democracy. The article states that “The musical trope is significant because it relates to a pure aesthetic form to a political practice, implying that Whitman’s poetry does not merely talk about democratic issues but transforms the essence of democracy into a stylistic embodiment that constitutes the founding moment of a genuine American aesthetics” (Leypoldt 333). The article is a useful source for the essay because it brings out key issues such as democracy and social equality which reveal Whitman’s ideas of what America is. The article points out his overarching themes that mirror the fundamental values of American’s founding.
Harlan, David. “A People Blinded From Birth: American History According To Sacvan Bercovitch.” The Journal of American History 78.3 (1991): 949. Web.
The above article brings Winthrop’s views regarding America.

It argues that Americans have lost their early recognition that the ideas and books that they inherit give them their best warrant to criticize the present. The article states “We forget that Winthrop wrote his poet’s vision of American history to demonstrate how American minds get beaten thin by waste, to explain why the pure products of America go crazy” (Harlan 950). Winthrop and his friends hope to escape what they perceive as religious regulations and heresies in the England Church. They viewed America as a country where they could abandon their beliefs, reform the church and then advance the Christian Gospel. The article is useful for the essay because it gives the other views about America.
Works Cited
Harlan, David. “A People Blinded From Birth: American History According To Sacvan Bercovitch.” The Journal of American History 78.3 (1991): 949. Web.
Leypoldt, Günter. “Democracy’s Lawless Music: The Whitmanian Moment In The U.S. Construction Of Representative Literariness.” New Literary History 38.2 (2007): 333-352. Web.