Walt Whitman was a follower of the two Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. ... Whitman lent himself to this concept of independence. ... 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." Whitman's first poem in Leaves of Grass is called "Song of Myself". ... Whitman was a great writer who brought up his own way of writing poetry. ...

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Another example of a Romantic value from The Natural World is from one of Walt Whitman's poems. In I Heard the Learned Astronomer, Whitman takes an Astronomy lecture to heart, and never looks at the sky the same way. ... Another Individualism is again refered to Walt Whitman in a different poem called, I Hear America Singing. In the poem Whitman talks about the common people and how each individual comes together to make up America as a whole. ...

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