From Democratic Politics to Democratic Poetics
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Whitman's Poetic Innovations Equality Whitman in his political life was a democrat. In his poetry he believed in democracy and equality of all members of society. His definition of democracy can be summarised as the equality of all people. America failed to live up to its ideal of equality; Whitman believed in the central role of poets in a democratic society. Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity … He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land. Whitman decided to play his part in his poetry. In Leaves he portrayed a democratic utopia where every citizen was treated equally. He called himself the poet of Equality, between blacks and whites, between men and women. In “By Blue Ontario's Shore,” he wrote “Here are the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.” Equality is the main feature of a democracy and the central theme for the poet of America. Whitman's themes centre on equality; to deal with such themes he created “a new language of equality” which would later be elaborated on. Body Whitman broke the nineteenth-century taboos against writing about the body. While the body was included in the unmentionable topics of respected communities with puritan and Victorian morality, he spoke about it with honesty and openness. It was integral to his idea of equality. He was the poet of equality; that was why he turned into “the prophet of the body.” All humans live in bodies and the body is equal and common to everybody; it represents equality. His poetry depicts “body as a locus of democratic energies.” He believed that sexual expression in popular culture was cheapened; he treated the body in an artistic manner. He put his poetry in the category of physiology. That reduced the criticism of his depiction of the body. Ignoring some parts of the body would reduce the criticism.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".