Whereas Whitman had no problem offending people with his use of words or themes in his poetry. ... " Based on Whitman's words, the bodies of both males and females not only perfect, but sacred and deserve to be revered and loved. ... Whitman had to have much courage to stick to his guns and write his poetry as he chose without a set rhyme or meter. ... Although Walt Whitman, America's poet, used slang, colloquialisms, and regional dialects in his poems rather than the usual rhyme and meter found in the nineteenth century. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman, a great poet, is said to be one of the best poets of his time. "A very lazy person with a lot of time on his hands" was what Whitman thought of himself. Though he was nothing of that sort. Whitman took his poetry seriously and everything he wrote came from his heart. ...

• Word Count: 666
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Whitman dared to go outside the conventional boundaries of poetic expression because he seldom followed the standards in rhyme, meter, and stanza form. ... The mysterious and unique expression that is found within the words of Whitman's writing would lose its unadulterated beauty if it had been written in a conventional method....

• Word Count: 1169
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First of all, Whitman's poetry almost never contained a rhyme scheme and secondly, he used language of the "common man." ... One would never find Walt Whitman writing about Greek gods, or using the words "ye", "ev"n", or any other antiquated word. ...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Her unique free style is due mainly to her peculiar placement of punctuation, such as dashes that break the lines keeping them open, unusual grammar and capitalization of seemingly banal words. ... In fact, through the synesthesia, syllables and sentences are described by words generally used in describing petals, which compose the flower's cup like syllables and sentences compose a poem. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that l...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He would use a type of experimental verse cast in lines without rhyme and long lines with no identifiable meter. ... Whitman tried hard to make this second edition look different from first one, so he eliminated the space of the first one, also without Emerson's permission, he printed in gold the opening words of the letter he sent: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have a long foreground somewhere, for such a start. ...

• Word Count: 3041
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Of course, according to him, we aren't normally in commune with our soul, but all we need to gain this connection is demonstrated in the following: Loafe with me [his soul] on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat, Not words, not music or rhyme I want . . . . not custom or lecture, not even the best, Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice. ...

• Word Count: 2891
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School