Walt Whitman was and still is a very influential poet and one of the most famous writers of poetry in American Literature. ... Do Whitman's poems contain many different Themes, in his poetry? ... Walt Whitman was saying that whether male or female the body is beautiful, and we should not be ashamed to be who we are, as far as gender is concerned. ... 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. ... Whitman often praises the individual. ...

• Word Count: 1606
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Biography of Walt Whitman Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. ... Young Walt, the second of nine, was withdrawn from public school at the age of eleven to help support the family. ... From 1846 to 1847 Whitman was the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. ... Whitman depicts the oak tree to be lonely. ... Whitman reflects the tree on himself in the fourth line. ...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes are just two examples, of many, why New Criticism should be disputed. ... In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Walt Whitman draws on many life experiences that provide both realism and conviction to the poem. ... The role that Whitman's background has in this poem is a major one. ... Whitman did not like or believe in slavery. ... Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes wrote about the tragedies that they felt existe...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

Thus Whitman began his "Song of the Open Road". ... "Self-reliant, with haughty eyes, assuming to himself all the attributes of his country, steps Walt Whitman into literature, talking like a man unaware that there was ever hitherto such a production as a book, or such a being as a writer" . ... To Whitman, the game was life, and in it he maintained his pose. It was important to Whitman to not be simply a poet. ... Whitman truly placed his heart in his pen as few poets have. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Allen Ginsberg's response to a post-war America is powerful and rebellious, challenging the values of ordinary American citizens and addressing the issues of McCarthyism, consumerism and capitalism that enclose him, in a corrupted American society where Ginsberg and fellow beat writers, and visionar...

• Word Count: 1272
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Following the free-verse tradition of Walt Whitman, a Beat-like luminary, the meter of Ginsberg's poetry is like American dialect, wrought with rhythmic shift and "staccato abruptness" (Feinstein 81). ...

• Word Count: 2473
• Approx Pages: 10