All 5 Uses of
diversity
in
Leaves of Grass
- I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.†
Chpt 3
- …and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation, The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings— always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches, Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West with strong…†
Chpt 10
- These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars, Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves, Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.†
Chpt 23
- Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,
Chpt 23 *diversities = varieties
- Kosmos Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover, Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or…†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(diversity) the condition of variety -- especially in reference to members of a population group who are of different races or cultures