Tension Between Obliteration and Regeneration in Walt Whitman’s Selected Poems

This article explores the poet’s tension between his fear of environmental obliteration and a hope for spiritual regeneration in Walt Whitman’s poems Compost. To do so, it applies ecocritical perspective which studies about relationship man with biotic a-biotic world literary text. Whitman, poems, unfolds reverence to natural world. He celebrates beauty everyday life nature. In these he glorifies nature its amazing ability transform every dead, diseased sick matter into regeneration. does not see death as an end life. finds event renew beautiful one. mind wrestles inner getting touch second part faith that has capacity renewing ugly divine materials new study concludes human being’s earth is unbounded maternal. It portrays how fears apocalyptic visions are ultimately silenced.