<span> published just before his passing, is an interesting </span>mix of bothrealism<span> and </span>spirituality<span>. As Steven G. Kellman, editor of </span>Masterpieces of American Literature<span>, points out, the "I" speaking in the poem is not simply a corporeal self; it's a </span>divineself<span>able to interact with the entire universe and affirm the "divinity and sacredness of the entire universe
