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Walt Whitman
Life and work in America
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he left school at the age of 11 and worked as an office boy, an apprentice printer, a carpenter and a journalist
wandering through Manhattan, he was also serving an apprenticeship for his poetry
with his expansive rhetoric, ambulating lines, and delight in the spectacle of people
In 1840s and 1850s he travelled throughout the United States, and this gave him a broad experience of America and its people
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he spent the last 20 years in Camden, where he revised the book of his poems
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Whitman's poetry style
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he was trying to invent a new poetic by experimenting how lines are colloquial and if as a line swung freely as the individual voice
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during the writing of a third edition, Whitman had an unhappy liaison with a man
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he invented the form that epic would assume in the New World, a form that would be imitated and developed
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