Whitman’s optimism can be best understood after one learns about his theory of poetry. Whitman had a very lofty concept of a poet whose business is to represent reality. A great poet according to Whitman exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they are for or what is beyond. A poet reveals the hidden possibility. A poet also brings to the surface the riches playing somewhere in the racial memory, in the collective unconscious. The poet is seer the eye of the universe. He is capable to see