Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, Long Island, New York, on May 31, 1819. Whitman was one of nine children and little is known about his youth except that two of his siblings were illiterate, imbeciles (Lieye). Growing up, Whitman attended grammar school in Brooklyn (Pooley, 413). Whitman’s parents were mostly poor and illiterate. His father was a carpenter, while his mother was a devout Quaker. (Lieye) Whitman held a good relationship with his parents, while providing and taking care of them (Pooley, 413).

In 1830, at the age eleven, Whitman worked as an office boy for a lawyer, where he had started to learn the printing trade (Lieye). Then at the age twelve, Whitman had learned the printers trade, and fell in love with the written word. In 1836, at the age of seventeen, Whitman began his career as a teacher in the one room schoolhouse of Long Island (Otfinosk, 24). Whitman still pursued his interest in newspapers. Then in 1838, he founded a weekly ne

Amazed by the pain and suffering, for eleven years, Whitman’s worked and helped wounded in nearby hospitals (Babusci, 234). These events had a very big influence on Whitman’s work (Pace, 311). The Civil War influenced Whitman to publish a series of wartime poems under the title “Drum Taps.” These poems, like many others, were eventually found in “Leaves of Grass” (Pace, 307).

wspaper in Huntington, The Long Islander (Babusci, 231). Whitman continued to teach until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full time career (Otfinosk, 24). Thus Whitman returned to New York to work on his writings (Abel, 456). Whitman then partially took up carpentry and house building while he edited newspapers. (Folsom)

Walter Whitman was a courageous person and often stood up for what he wanted, unlike many others of his time. He took into consideration many people’s thoughts and suggestions, yet always added his unique touch to his works.

Whitman spent his final years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book, “Leaves of Grass” (Babusci, 234). Whitman lived through the nation’s heroic age, at a time when people had to be a little more than “life-size” to accomplish all of the deeds that they undertook. (Folsom). Whitman died on March 26, 1892 in Camden, New Jersey (Pace, 314). Whitman once define

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