Walt Whitman(1819-1892), broke the literary tradition of his time with regards to content, form and style of his vigorous verse. ... The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. ... Walt Whitman 1. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" Whitman's masterpiece is certainly "Leaves of Grass", an anthology of poems he first published in 1855 and kept revising till his death. ... Catalogue technique and Whitman's relationship with the reader In the poem's first line a child asks the poet what the grass is. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate