Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

The voice of Leaves of Grass is the voice of nature "without check with original energy." Zen, as described by its followers, is Nature itself. This thesis is a comparison of Zen nature and Whitman's voice of nature. Zen-- A monk was anxious to learn Zen and said: "Will you be gracious enough to show me the way to Zen?" The master said: "Do you hear the murmuring sound of the mountain stream?" The monk answered: "Yes I do." The master said: "Here is the entrance." Whitman-- Was somebody asking to see the soul? See your own shame and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Zen insight rests somewhere within perception or consciousness of the mountain stream. Whitman places a similar value on perception of nature.

Extent

84 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13603

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