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Whitman Biography
Walt Whitman (English: Walt Whitman, May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892), born on Long Island, New York, was a famous American poet and humanist, who created the Free Verse of poetry, and whose representative work is the collection Leaves of Grass Grass).
1841 Moved to New York City. 1855 Father died, Leaves of Grass (Leaves of Grass) first edition. 1871 Mother Louisa died. 1882 Met Oscar Wilde, published Specimen Days and Collect. 1885 To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's death, composed the poem "Dedicated to the Man Crucified". Crucified," later included in Leaves of Grass. 1888 Second blow. Severe illness. 1891 Last edition of Leaves of Grass, March 26, 1892 Whitman dies.
Expanded Information:
Leaves of Grass, the most important work in Whitman's poetry collection, gets its name from one of the poems in the collection, "Wherever there is earth and wherever there is water, grass grows." The poems in the collection are like the grass that grows all over America, vibrant and fragrant. They are world-renowned masterpieces that usher in a new era of American national poetry.
The author made a bold innovation in the form of poetry, creating the "free form" of poetry, breaking the traditional poetic meter, using the broken line as the basis of rhyme, free and unrestrained rhythm, unrestrained, free and easy, with a sweeping momentum and all-encompassing capacity.
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