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WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) - Coggle Diagram
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
LIFE
West Hills, New York, from a working class family
poor education, started working at 11 as a printer's apprentice for a newspaper
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he retired to Camden, New Jersey, in 1873 and died in 1892
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WORKS
4th July, 1855
Leaves of Grass
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first edition: his picture dressed up as a 'democratic bard' (brown hat, open shirt, long beard)
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1865
Drum-Taps
lyrics about his enthusiasm for the abolition of slavery and the issues of democracy promoted by Lincoln
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NATURE
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the body of the earth, a material entity with a character
STYLE
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the poet's aim:
to assert and celebrate, particularly American nation and civilisation
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POEM
O Captain! my Captain! - written after Lincoln's assassination, depicts him as the symbol of American democracy