Walt Whitman's I Saw In Louisiana A Live-oak Growing

In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as an innovative teacher in the one-room school houses of Long Island. He continued to teach school until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He soon became editor for a number of Brooklyn and New York papers. From 1846 to 1847 Whitman was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Whitman went to New Orleans in 1848, where he was the editor for a brief time of the “New Orleans Crescent”. In that city he became fascinated with the French language. Many of

All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,

Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark

And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and

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