social aspect. In their efforts of reflecting democracy, Emerson and Whitman used various devices. There is the usage of metaphors in writing in a bid to pass the point across. For example, Emerson uses the metaphor of a star in his poem, “self-reliance.” In one of his poems, he says that man, referring to human beings, is a star, his own star. Thus, man is capable of shining for himself meaning that; man is capable of achieving democracy and that he is self-reliant when it comes to making choices for making the world a viable place for living. There is also a reflection of democracy through association of the democratic people with greatness. Whitman, in his poem of ‘song of myself”...
