O xamanismo em Walt Whitman na edição original de Folhas de relva.

Abstract

In this paper, initially, we present some fundamental aspects about what is shamanism, its origins and its history, and we drew a profile of shaman figure and the important role it plays in the community. Below we identify existing similarities between the crafts of the shaman and the poet, demonstrating how both perform especially the function of connectors between the apparent reality and the supernatural worlds, as well as the translators of the insights gained in other levels of consciousness and through the contact with the various natural manifestations. Finally, we expose and prove how the main shamanism features appear in the original 1855 edition of the work Leaves of grass, by the American poet Walt Whitman, which allows us to appoint him as a legitimate shaman-poet.