9/11 테러와 휘트먼의 유령들

The 9/11 Terrorist Attack and Whitman's Ghosts

In 2001, more than three thousand innocent people in New York were killed by the terrorist attack. It's as severe as the carnage of the Civil War. The poets after 9/11 attack are like the ghosts of Whitman and their mentality is like Whitman's 'deja vu' after the Civil War. With the collapse of the World Trade Center Building, their self- esteem for the technological civilization was also crashed into Ground Zero. All the wars and terrors are products of human greed. Religious fundamentalists like al-Qaeda and arms traders associated with the military-industrial complex emphasize the political and economic interests more than Human Right. Whitman wanted everybody to be brothers and sisters with love transcending nationality, race, and hierarchy. His spirit is still strolling through the streets of Manhattan as a ghost shouting a message of love, not religious doctrine, reconciliation, not hatred, equality, nondiscrimination through the lips of modem poets of New Yark as his alter-ego.