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... Jane McGovern
English 8a
5-03-04
Builder for America
Walt Whitman was born in 1819 on Long Island, the Paumanok, and he self-published his first-edition Leaves of Grass in 1855(http://www. ... edu/library/spcoll/amlit/whitman. ... Walt Whitman is the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa of Van Velsor and Walt Whitman lives with eight other siblings. At the age of twelve, Whitman began his job as a printer’s apprentice, and fell in love with written works. Whitman worked as a printer in New York. ... In 1848, Whitman left the Brooklyn Daily Eagle to become an editor of the New Orleans Crescent. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired Walt Whitman to write more poetry. In 1855, Walt Whitman got a copyright on the first edition of Leaves of Grass, which contained twelve untitled poems and a preface. ... Walt Whitman released a second edition of the book in 1856,
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containing thirty-three poems, a letter from Emerson praising the first edition, and a long open letter by Walt Whitman(http://www. ...
Whitmans poetry is democratic in both its subject matter and its language:
“And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers,
and the women my sisters and lovers,”
(Sound of Myself V) Most of Walt Whitmans poetry shows that anything or anyone is fair game for a poem; for example:
“A child said, What is the grass? ... ”
(A noiseless patient spider)
Whitman is concerned with how the new America he sees growing around him.
Approximate Word count = 1260
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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