Walt Whitmans Reflections Toward Civil War

century. He was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington, New York. He grew up

on a farm and had little formal education. While living in Brooklyn, he attended public

school for six years. He had several jobs editing newspapers in New York. He built

houses and worked in the real estate business from 1850 to 1855. During this time he

read at home and at libraries. He would even carry a book with his lunch so that he

could read on his lunch break. Whitman developed an interest in writing and began

experimenting with a new style of poetry. People did not approve of his new style. At

one point he was threatened with criminal prosecution because several of his poems were

considered obscene. This newspaper publicity created interest in his book Leaves of

Grass, a collection of his poems. Whitman also wrote a collection of war poems that

were written during the Civil War called Drum-Taps. In 1871 this collection of

poems was added to Leaves of Grass. Whitman was too old for the military service,

so he took part in the war by caring for the injured. This made him develop a strong

considered a philosopher, propagandist, humorist, and a poet, because of his

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