... people not to be ashamed of who they are and what they have to offer the world. Born on May 31, 1819, Whitman was born at West Hills in the town of Huntington, Long Island. Being "the son of Walter Whitman, a carpenter and farmer, and Louisa Van Velsor," he was the "second of eight surviving children" in ... these critics and uproars, he still continued to write his poems for many years on. For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Foundation 1). As in the poem O Captain, My Captai...

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