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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman. May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892. A brief introduction.

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Walt Whitman

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  1. Walt Whitman May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892

  2. A brief introduction • Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death,[citation needed] he is viewed as the first urban poet. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism, incorporating both views in his works. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Whitman is among the most influential and controversial poets in the American canon. His work has been described as a "rude shock" and "the most audacious and debatable contribution yet made to American literature." As Whitman wrote in Leaves of Grass (By Blue Ontario's Shore), "Rhymes and rhymers pass away...America justifies itself, give it time..."

  3. Walt Whitman ’S Works • Leaves of Grass (Song of Myself) • Drum-Taps • The Poet

  4. Points of View in Writing • Walt Whitman was inspired by Emerson greatly.A visionary book celebrating all creation,Leaves of Grass was inspired largely by Emerson’writings,especially his essay The poet which predicted a robust, open-hearted,universal kind of poet uncannily like whitman himself.The poem’s innovative ,unrhymed,free-verse form,open celebration of sexualiy,vibrant democratic sensibility,and extreme romantic assertion that the poet’s self was one wih the poem,the universe,and the reader permanently alered the course of American poetry.

  5. More than any other writer ,Whitman invented the myth of democratic America.The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probaly the fullest poetical nature.The United States is essentially the greaest poem. When whitman wrote this ,he daringly turned upside down the general opinion that America was too brash and new to be poetic .He invented a timeless America of the free imagination, people with pioneering spirits of all nations.D.H Lawrence,the British novelist and poet ,accurately callede him he poet of the “open road.”

  6. conclusion Whitman’s voice elecrifies even modern readers with his proclamation of the unity and vital force of all creation. He was enormously innovative .From him spring the poem as autobiography, the American Everyman as bard, the reader as creator ,and the still-contemporary discovery of “experimenal” or organic,form.

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