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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was a follower of the two Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Henry David Thoreau. He believed in Emerson and Thoreau’s Trascendentalist beliefs.
Whitman believed that individualism stems from listening to one’s inner voice and that one’s
life is guided by one’s intuition. The Transcendentalist centered on the divinity of each
individual; but this divinity could be self-discovered only if the person had the independence of
mind to do so. Whitman lent himself to this concept of independence. He once said,”Everything
on earth has the divine spark within and thus is all part of a whole.”(web.pg2trans.) This
philosophy of individualism led to an optimistic emphasis on society. Because Whitman
immodestly praised the human body and glorified the senses, “Walt Whitman’s poems assert the
worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity.”
Walt Whitman was an American poet who was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington,
N.Y. He was the second of a family of nine children. His father was a carpenter and his mother,
who he a had a close relationship,was a housewife. When he was four years old, his family
moved to Brooklyn, where he attended public school for six years before being apprenticed to a
printer. In 1835 he began teaching in country schools. After several yrs. spent at various jobs,
including building houses, he began writing a new kind of poetry and thereafter neglected
business. Shortly after, in 1955 Whitman issued the first of many editions of Leaves of Grass, a
volume of poetry in a new kind of versification, far different from his sentimental rhymed verse
of the 1840s.
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Whitman’s first poem in Leaves of...
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