Whitman

In the poem the Ploughman Ploughing Whitman's relates to both christianity and the everyman even though there is only four lines.The poem can relate to Christianity because when the poem describes the harvest growing and then being cut down it can represent Jesus. Just like a harvest that gets cut down and then sent out to people all over the world to help and feed them. Jesus was sacrificed for people all over the world. Just like harvests come back every year to keep providing people with food Jesus too, came back to help the people around the world with their sins and to save them. The way this poem relates to the every man concept as well. The everyman concept is a concept where the ideas in the poem can relate to anyone anywhere. The ideas are a universal concept that is apply able to anyone. But anyway the everyman idea is pretty applicable to this poem because, everyone dies. At some point every ones life must end. Whether your big or weak, smart or dumb everyone dies in the end. So when Whitman talks about dying and how there is a circle of life with the grain being cut down or killed when it is old and mature then a new seedling pops up and the process of life starts all over again. It was a representation how people grow form a little seedling and then into an old stalk that gets cut down. Such a universal concept like death is definitely a everyman concept. Many of Whitman's poem can be interpreted in many ways. In my own opinion this poem is over analyzed. I dont think it has anything to do with God and is meant to be interpreted as the cycle of life and how just like agriculture people will keep growing. It is over analyzed when you try to relate it to the divine because it has nothing to do with it.