walt whitmans works

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Walter Whitman, Jr., was born on May 31, 1819, at Long Island, New

York, to poor, obscure parents of English, Dutch, and Welsh descent-- the second son in

a family of nine children. The first of his work was called "Leaves of Grass", at 1855. "It

represents him as such, in shirt and trousers, with one hand on his hip and the other in his

pocket (7; 137)." " 'Leaves of Grass,' is Whitman's own means of freeing himself from the

outward and understandable world of precipitating himself into the mood of ecstasy (7;

164)." About eight hundred copies of "Leaves of Grass" were printed. Very few were

sold. Dr. Bucke, Whitman's first biographer, replies, "Whitman can in the 'Leaves of

Grass' identify the traces of Whitman's first remarkable mystic experience (7; 144)." The

readers of "Leaves of Grass" discovered that there was twelve untitled poems and a

preface explaining the poets view of poetry and its purpose. Whitman has made an impact

Walt Whitman also understands how the past continues to exist: it exists in

the present, and comes into living form only when some individual man is willing

modern achievements in transportation and communication to unite the Eastern and

himself. Nature was just one great function. "As soon as Walt 'knew' a thing, he assumed

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