Keeping this in mind when he wrote Leaves of Grass he mentioned that his inspiration was his mother quoting, "The best part of every man is his mother" (Collow 16). ... Walt Whitman soon published what would become his greatest peace of writing " Leaves of Grass", which would include a collection of his greatest poems. In one occasion while Whitman worked in a department of Interiors the secretary fired him when she found out that he had written " Leaves of Grass" because of his morals in the poem. ... Whitman also rewrote and reorganized the order of the poems in Leaves Of Grass and publish...

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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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