Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published on the fourth of July in 1855. ... Whitman wrote only one book- Leaves of Grass- but he took a lifetime to write it, and he saw his one book through many shapes. ... As first published, Leaves of Grass was a large book encased by green covers with an ornate, leafy design. ... Although he still published several more editions of "Leaves of Grass" before his death in 1892, his last years were spent in poor health. ... In his farewell poem for "Leaves of Grass" he assumed his success: "Camerado, this is no book/Who touches this ...

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But one of these poets emerges from this group of people; an influential poet of the 19th century was Walt Whitman, author of the famous poems, "Leaves of Grass," and "O Captain, My Captain.... Upon publishing Leaves of Grass, Whitman was subsequently fired from his job with the Department of the Interior. Simultaneously, after writing Leaves of Green Grass and publishing it, this had been an obstacle for Whitman. ...

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After the war, he held secretarial jobs to support himself, and lost one such job when his employer's scandalized eye fell upon the Leaves. ... In his final essay written one year before his death in 1891, he sums up his struggles of thirty years to write Leaves of Grass. ... In "Without my companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green" means that without anyone to rely on, without any friends to care off, still the tree can stand and live a happily and joyous life. ... In lines seven and eight, Whitman breaks off a twig and twine some moss around the twig to keep the leave...

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For instance, Whitman's second revision of Leaves of Grass, published in August of 1856, "looked completely different physically from the first edition, and the poems it contained showed signs of genuine despair the nation in the meantime continued to unravel"(Reynolds, 340). ... While the style and structure of Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" begins with him "observing a spear of summer grass"(Baym 24) and ends with I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow myself from the grass I love,If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles"(Baym 67) ...

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"Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos/Disorderly, fleshy and sensual eating and drinking/and breeding/No sentimentalist no stander above men and women or/apart from them no more modest than immodest." This is how Walt Whitman revealed himself in his first edition of Leaves of Gras...

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree {Davidoff, 199}. American literature has been apart of our history since our settlement. Throughout our history, America has generated many great authors. These authors write works of literature that educate ...

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