Original sentence: " The physical and spiritual yearnings of Whitman call him to explore this other Eden, the "typical Arcadian paradigm" again firmly established as "the lonely retreat" to the Arcadian forest completed by homoerotic bathing or baptismal rituals at the side of the "miraculous pool" of water, loosely patterned after the Ladon River, which flows through the province of Arcadia in Greece.As one example, Fone points out that in what he identifies as Walt Whitman's Arcadian poems (most notably "In Paths Untrodden" and "These I Singing in Spring") two important elements are present: "the world of the real life, which demands a certain conformity of appearance, and the world of the spirit, which is ill fed by the standards of that world.Fone refers to what he sees as a long and ancient literary and artistic tradition amongst homosexually-inclined men from Virgil to the present (including E
Edited sentence: " The physical and spiritual yearnings of Whitman call him to explore this other Eden, the "typical Arcadian paradigm" again firmly established as "the lonely retreat" to the Arcadian forest completed by homoerotic bathing or baptismal rituals at the side of the "miraculous pool" of water, loosely patterned after the Ladon River, which flows through Arcadia in Greece.13 - see full reference below.As one example, Walt Whitman, offers California to his erotic democracy as a place where the Arcadian metaphor might become a reality.Fone has found a long and ancient literary and artistic tradition amongst homosexually-inclined men from Virgil to the present (via E.Fone points out that in Whitman's Arcadian poems (most notably "In Paths Untrodden" and "These I Singing in Spring") two important elements are present: "the world of the real life, which demands a certain conformity of appearance, and the world of the spirit, which is ill fed by the standards of that world