Accepting Death in Whitman's Poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination touched the American poet Walt Whitman and inspired him to create superb elegy "When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom'd." While poem mourns death, also suggests that death is not something be afraid of. This paper examines how shows speaker's change from an intense feeling of grief a reconciliation with truths life death. Through close analysis poem's imagery, language, it explores comes recognize as natural process leads rebirth brings hope. Despite profound loss experienced by people, remains optimistic country will flourish once again, just spring follows winter. The emphasizes importance welcoming way connect soul body find relief suffering. Ultimately, whole conveys powerful idea accepting