A course creator, but elitist poetry

Walt Whitman is one of the major poets who, frankly, are now "classics", who revolutionized poetry both by a totally innovative form, and the content of his poems. he advocated the fusion of opposites, the universal beauty, man as part of nature, sex as a means of uniting the two poles of life and reach Eternity. it is a democratic poetry, which opposes the time to the Church that condemned the body and pleasures of the flesh, and that fights slavery.
However, we must be very careful when reading his poems. already, allusions to religion require a solid knowledge of the Bible. Then, his poetry was in his destiny to the people, for everyone, universal poetry. gold is still more read and studied by 'elites', the meaning is often extremely complex despite an appearance of simplicity and obviousness.
from there, I highly recommend reading that can only be rewarding but paying attention to what exactly creates its originality: the culture of paradox and insinuating.