... , back of book} Walt Whitman's works boldly assert the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity. His defiant break with traditional poetic concerns and style exerted a major influence on American thought and literature. Walt Whitman poems are a love letter to his country. To accomplish his ... purpose of singing the praise of the untrammeled American spirit, Whitman forsook the confining poetic forms of his day. His poems are melodic chants, suited to the ear. Readers around the world have turned to Walt Whitman as the ... spokesman for the new democratic society. No poet...

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• Grade Level: High School

... his trip to New Orleans Whitman wrote a poem called "Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight", where a steamboat journey becomes a symbolic journey of life . Moreover all this changes helped Whitman to have a poetic transformation. His experiences at New Orleans caused a change of attitude. This change was caused at most by the increasing number of friends with radical ideas. It appears that Whitman's increasing ... printings of some poems, with other 120 new poems. He also revised his other poems like "Song of Myself", here called "Walt Whitman" and through the book he numbered his poetic ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ,2011): the catalog of the several possible answers, one per each subsequent stanza, built the whole poem, that is not metrical nor does it rhyme, on Whitman's typical accumulation of poetic comparison through the use of anaphora. The repetition of "I guess" at the beginning of each stanza creates the feeling that the poet does not dominate the meaning and ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate