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The present paper analyses the selected poems of Whitman by focusing how he used natural images to express homoerotic desires. Walt Whitman (1819-92) is a famous and well known poet, not only in his own country America, but throughout the world. Whitman is considered to be the first original American poet and the poet of the new world. Whitman became famous due to the publication of his masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855. One of the main themes of Whitman’s poetry is the concern for the natural world of America. The title of Leaves of Grass itself connotes the affinity between the poet and the nature which surrounds him and the people around him. Whitman expresses his impressions of the American landscape very beautifully and aesthetically. Whitman is also considered to be a regional poet who appreciates the natural prosperity of his region with a keen observation, “An ecopoetical rethinking of such categories favors the view of Walt Whitman as an island poet of the northeastern coastline of America, a poet belonging to a special location, for him a sacred place” (Killingsworth, Walt Whitman and the Earth 12). As can be seen in these lines from his poem “Starting from Paumanoak”: