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Walt Whitman (Life and works (little formal education, born in New York in…
Walt Whitman
Life and works
little formal education
born in New York in 1819
worked as printer's apprentice (journalism)
supports radical democratic causes
went to New Orleans and understood lots of things
acquired self-taught culture
father of American poetry
bad reputation from puritans
helped wounded soldiers during the Civil War
His style
free verse
long lines
accumulation and addition
fragmentation
no metaphors
the poet's aim in not to evoke but to assert and celebrate
A life-long poem
Leaves of Grass, nine editions
development and expansion
trascendental sense of unity of all the things
refused traditional forms and structure of 19th century :
His view of nature
not a traditional pastoral vision
natural world as the body of the earth
relation to the earth was mystical