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Walt Whitman was a very strong minded, and anxious American author, who accomplished goals and made a great impact on the world today. introduction:
The great life of Walt Whitman is still talked about today. He went from being a student, to a journalist, then an editor. He was very successful and thoughtful, and made many accomplishments during his 73 years of life. BODY:
1. Walt Whitman didn’t have a terrible life, but it wasn’t perfect.(Walt Whitman.” Encyclopedia Brittanica. Encyclopedia Brittanica online edition. Encyclopedia Brittanica inc. 2012. Web.13 Nov.
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He was proud of the way he stayed confident, and focused while editing the paper. Walt made it very clear for the readers to understand. Walt’s brother read one of his articles, and next time he wrote Walt, he let him know that he was proud of him for achieving his lifetime goal, and that he wanted to see him soon. On the day that Walt heard that his brother was wounded at war, he traveled up to Fredricksburg, and stayed in a camp about 2 mile away from the base. ( Walt Whitman.” Encyclopedia Brittanica. Encyclopedia Brittanica Academic online edition. Encyclopedia Brittanica inc, 2012. Web.13 Nov.2013 <http:// www.brittanica.com / Eb checked/topic/642866> ) He spent his spare time visiting the wounded and dying soldiers. Walt stayed there until he saw that his brother was doing better, then he returned to Brooklyn and received good news; Whitman had got a promotion, this was January of 1865 but in June he was dismissed because the secretary of the interior thought that “The leaves of grass” was indecent. That same year, he entitled a poem called “Drum Tops”, the sequel of this poem contained his great elegy on president Abraham Lincoln. Walt greatly admired Abe’s work. He held the theory that the chief function of the poet personality in his verse.
3. He remained a poet for as long as he could.
Walt was one of the oldest poets there was at the time. He started at an early age, and never gave up. He had been getting sick, but he always
The death of Abraham Lincoln profoundly impacted Walt Whitman and his writing. Although Whitman and Lincoln never met personally, Whitman explained a moment when Lincoln passed through New York City for his inauguration. Describing the President’s actions, Whitman stated, “[Lincoln] bowed and smiled, but far beneath his smile [Whitman] noticed well the expression of [Lincoln]” (Oliver 17). Whitman believed that no other artist or picture caught the deep, latent sadness in the expression of Lincoln like he did during Lincoln’s speech. After realizing the liability and burden that the nation forced upon Lincoln as president, Whitman recognized the “unique nature” of Lincoln (Vendler). During the interim between the assassination of Lincoln and
People of all kinds are influenced by their everyday life and it shows in their work. Walt Whitman is no exception to this rule. Whitman was born in 1819
Whitman was able to do this almost effortlessly because he saw what was really going on. He volunteered as a wound-dresser; he wrote letters for wounded soldiers, he gave of himself tirelessly. Whitman saw his nation divided and stood to tell his tale. He was an everyman; he was any man. Whitman was the human embodiment of undying compassion. Most of all Whitman is something
Whitman identifies himself for the first time in section 24 and even then into a balance of scriptural, half-comical outline as “Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son” he strikes readers in a distinctly proud and individual posture and addresses the audience in a doubly straightforward demeanor. He talks about how his body does indeed “spread,”not only from head to toe, but also from from earth to heaven, and from self to others. So now his voice can now represent the nearby and the inaccessible, the life around him and the life a long way from him. The pace begins to diminish as he distinguishes nearly and carefully with one section of society as it were: the injured, the imprisoned, the
Walt Whitman, one of the world's greatest journalist and poets, touched the lives of many different and diverse cultures through his many works in which he placed his feet in the shoes of everyday people and the experiences they faced. However, his attitude towards slavery and abolitionism were never permanent as if he was constantly torn between how he really felt or how others who did not agree with him would judge his views. As the saying goes, "your first teachers are your parents." Whitman grew up in a racist environment, in which he was a descendent of slave owners. Therefore, he grew up embodying white prejudice and coming to a conclusion that blacks were shiftless and ignorant. However, as he grew older and became more educated on the
Walt Whitman's was a writer and poet born in the 1800's He lived in Long Island NY, he temporary took a post for the paymaster once before and volunteered to help with wounded soldiers so he saw different views of the world.He also was a journalist humanist and
Those were hard times for the Whitman’s, having a large family of eight children and sometimes a lack of work. Walt’s father struggled to support his family as a carpenter, a farmer, and even unsuccessfully attempted of a real-estate career. No matter how hard he tried, it was not easy for the elder Whitman to support such a large family. The younger Walt was formally educated up until he turned eleven. It was at that age the he was forced to leave school in order to help his father earn money to support his younger brothers and
May 31, 1819 was the day that poet Walt Whitman was born. He was born to a housebuilder named Walter Whitman. He started working with printing when he was 12 years. After a devastating fire destroyed that industry, then 17 year old Walt Whitman went to work as teacher in a schoolhouse for five years. He then went to work in the journalism industry. He founded a newspaper called the Long-Islander. He then worked with other newspapers, like the Daily Eagle and the Crescent. He then realized the horrors of slavery during his time in New Orleans with the creation of the Brooklyn Freeman, using his unique sense of poetry. He wrote the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which contained 12 poems. He then created a second book right before the Civil
Walt Whitman does not like war or the effects of it. He realized this after volunteering as a nurse during World War One. The war changed his whole life and the way he saw it.
Walt Whitman was an acclaimed American poet whose work and methods still inspire people today, both young and old. He was influenced in his childhood because he was part of such a big family that struggled on a daily basis. In fact, when he was 11 just eleven years old he concluded formal schooling to get a job and help support his large family. Also, Walt was influenced by Deism, he agreed that everybody's faith was the same. Whitman was named: “The father of free verse” by many people because he had such a strange life which influenced him to write like this.
I am what I am” (Whitman 6-7). Walt then wonders, “Is there even one other like me?” (Whitman 8). Whitman completely forgets about his heartache begins to wonder about other hurting people instead of thinking about himself by the
Walt Whitman is considered one of the most important writers in the history of American Literature. The people of his own time called him a radical, a madman, and a pornographer. These days he is greatly appreciated and entitled as a fearless prophet of a new stage of human development. Sometimes Whitman would be in a slump and he felt that he needed to deflect the people who inquired too directly. This even meant using examples of homosexual elements in his work, as well as unbelievable stories of him having affairs with numerous women and fathering many children, unknown to him. Throughout these sorts of times W. Whitman has gone through both resentment and flattery, nevertheless showing us
After the Civil War, Walt Whitman realized that the American people were in need of their own identity. Therefore, he wrote the book “Leaves of Grass” with the goal of creating a literature piece that was authentic and organic to the United States in every sense. Whitman introduced to literature the idea of the “American Dream” and highlighted how important it was for the American people to develop their own identity. Consequently, he rejected the European writing styles and adapted the use of free-verses to his writing, making it a popular writing style in American poetry. Whitman valued of humanity, nature and spirituality. Therefore, he joined the Transcendental literary movement and
Walt Whitman, a civil war nurse was a self-taught poet in the 1800s. Whitman is known for using lists, anaphora, free verse, and other literary devices in his poems. In his works, he focuses on American workers, diversity, transcendent approaches to nature, and individualism. “Song of Myself,” a poem written by Whitman, explores themes of nature, sex, democracy, and spirituality. Whitman uses nature to fuel his creativity in using grass as a symbol of comparison to life by using imagery, metaphors, and analogies.
Walt Whitman was an avid reader of dictionaries, which he realized were the compost heap of all English-language literature. It was the place