Walt Whitman, an American poet was one of the most significant writers of his time period. His poetry influenced many poets after him and is also considered "the father of free verse" Although the time period that Walt Whitman was writing in was a time period of transition from Transcendentalism and...

~Transcendentalism : In The 19th Century~Transcendentalism revealed itself in the beginning of the 19th century with talented writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. These well-educated men brought such ideas as individualism, imagination, and nature to life thro...

Through his poetry, Whitman's "Song of Myself" makes the soul sensual and makes divine the flesh. In Whitman's time, the dichotomy between the soul and the body had been clearly defined by centuries of Western philosophy and theology. Today, the goodness of the soul and the badness of the flesh sti...

A View of Life Blue oceans of sea foam, I feel the calming of the water as I walk onto the ramp. The Staten Island Ferry, a means of transportation that I have called my own for almost four years. It seems as though every time my feet step upon the concrete and metal there's something n...

Death in poetry is written in many different aspects. Most poets depict death as an unmerciful creature, but for Walt Whitman, death is something practically worth dying for. Like Ralph Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, he is a transcendentalist, who asserts the existence of an ideal spiritual realit...

Through the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life's story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly cr...

Through the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write life's story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly cr...