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. ...

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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....

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