1. Writers of the Late Romantic Period
... adding and revising works within it until his death in 1892, Leaves of Grass is a compilation of nearly three hundred of these radical and powerfully written poems about commonplace events and common, working people. Whitman's poems in Leaves of Grass lack the standard patterns typical of poetry in the eighteen hundreds. He "introduced his use of catalogs," or listing, which ... became a trademark of his unique style of poetry (Baym 1312). In one of the most famous poems in Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself" Whitman expresses his belief in the "divine potential of the individual" and dem...
- Word Count: 1963
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate