Whitman Now

I am writing about the article "Whitman Now." from The Whitman Virginia Quarterly from April 2005. The article, written by Rafael Campo, briefly discusses how to define Walt Whitman's poetry in the time of the Bush administration. The whole reason why I am writing about The Wound Dresser is because art is supposed to transcend to all times. That, according to Wilson, is how the arts and humanities work. What better way to see how the poem still makes  than an article about it. My other references include a book of letters from Walt Whitman to his mother during the Civil War, and the first 14 pages of a thesis on how Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott and The Wound Dresser are related to one another through the events of the Civil War. Such work is true and beautiful because it conveys emotions and views from another time and makes them visible to future readers.