Very few people will contest that Walt Whitman may be one of the most important and influential writers in American literary history and conceivably the single most influential poet. However ... his writing conforms itself to no style, other than its own universal and unrestricted technique. Even though Whitman's work does not lend itself to the conventional form of poetry in the way his contemporaries such as Longfellow and Whittier do, it holds a deliberate structure, despite its sprawling style of free association. When people say Whitman has ... them style. Whitman's greatness lies in his...

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Very few people will contest that Walt Whitman may be one of the most important and influential writers in American literary history and conceivably the single most influential poet. However ... his writing conforms itself to no style, other then its own universal and unrestricted technique. Even though Whitman's work does not lend itself to the conventional form of poetry in the way his contemporaries such as Longfellow and Whittier do, it holds a deliberate structure, despite its sprawling style of free association. When people say Whitman has ... them style. Whitman's greatness lies in his...

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5

... works I've written meet my standards of high quality writing, though they like most of writing did take long hours to perfect. They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails ... . I ask myself, "Who am I as a writer?" and this is the first phrase that comes to mind, for writing is my passion. I entered my first writing contest in the second grade. The elementary school sponsored a...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School