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...n as exceedingly sexual to accommodate the function of reproduction. Woman is the bath of birth, the gate of the body and soul. On the other hand, Whitman presents the male body associating with action and power in the sixth stanza. The male have equality between his body and soul. The body contains power, knowledge, and pride that make the soul strong. Whitman presents the beautiful and powerful aspects of male and female body and then give his conclusion via logic that if the female and male body are sacred then all bodies are sacred; therefore the body is sacred regardless of who it is. This whole logic clearly emerge the idea of equality. Whitman argues that the body of a slave or a dull-faced immigrant is also sacred. He defends the equal right to have qualities by asking, Do you thin matter has cohered together from its diffuse float and the soil is on the surface, and water runs, and vegetation sprouts, for you only, and not for him and her? In the next two stanzas, Whitman describes the scene of selling the male and female slave at auction. A man has all the qualities of other. A man is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns. A man also has his family, his importance and purpose of life. On the other hand, a woman is the mother of mothers. Whitman ar...