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Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Walt Whitman is considered the father of the free-verse poetry. Which consists in having irregularities in the length, rhyming and lines of the verses in a poem.
He introduced society and his readers to taboo topics at the time, such as the human body, sexuality, and freedom.
His poems made society realize that they could express what they really felt. As his poems changed ideologies and with the time almost build a democracy.
He used free verse by "combining spontaneous, prosaic rhythms with incantatory repetition that he found in the Old Testament" according to The Poetry Foundation Organization.
Parallel Structure
Parallelism is used to make an rhythm effect throughout his poems as too accomplish the pattern of repetition.
In many of his poems, parallelisms created an effect of unity and similarity in the themes presented.
A parallel structure refes to "the repetition of words, phrases, and sentences that have the same grammatical structures" according to the essay from J. of College of Education for Women.
Examples:
"On the Beach at Night Alone" :
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
"Song of Myself" : I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp5 over the roofs of the world.
"I hear America Singing" :
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat,
The deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing
Anaphora
Walt Whitman makes use of anaphora to remark different detailed throughout his poems. As they give importance and make the reader focus on them.
He was known for talking about different and new topics, so including Anaphoras made him to clarify and evidence his themes to the reader.
An Anaphora is " the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences" according to a presentation made by Jason Carroll. As he also includes several examples of how Walt Whitman makes use of them:
Examples:
“Song of Myself” : It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mothers’ laps.
“Song of Myself” : And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, And such as it is to be of these more or less I am, And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
On the Beach at Night Alone" :
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of places however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms, ...
Catalogue
He uses a catalogue to list different aspects of his poems, which include the types of people, circumstance, or even objects that are talked about throughout the poem.
Catalogue is a collection of elements that is presented in a poem in list form.
Examples:
"On the Beach at Night Alone" :All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
"On the Beach at Night Alone" : All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
"On the Beach at Night Alone" : All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
Diction
He used diction as a mixture of words from different origins and styles like foreign languages, slang expressions and other to make his work outstanding.
Diction is the style or choice of words and phrases in a writing to convey an idea and make it outstanding
Examples from I Hear America Singing:
Beam
Boatman
Blithe
Bibliography:
https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/walt-whitman-built-democracy-into-his-poetry/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70243/walt-whitman-101
https://www.iasj.net/iasj/download/5dce1b33a90bec56
https://slideplayer.com/slide/8638868/
https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/literary-devices-exploring-anaphora-poems-walt-whitman
https://poemanalysis.com