Walt Whitman
Poetry has always been thought of as an expression of oneself. Walt Whitman certainlyseems to believe in that idea. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, NewYork. Whitman had a rather meager amount of formal education before he turned to theprinting trade. He worked as a teacher and also a printer and reporter for some verywell-known establishments including New World and the Democratic Review. Later, heturned to poetry as a career. Many of Walt Whitman's optimistic beliefs about life andsociety are clearly depicted through his poetry. Walt Whitman was very intrigued by the pseudo science of phrenology. The idealscore for a phrenological reading is a six, five is good, and a seven or eight indicatesdangerous overdevelopment. Whitman's readings include the following scores;amativeness 6, philoprogenitiveness 6, adhesiveness 6, inhabitiveness 6, alimentiveness 6,cautiousness 6, self-esteem 6 to 7, firmness 6 to 7, benevolence 6 to 7, sublimity 6 to 7,ideality 5 to 6, individuality 6, and intuitiveness 6 (25 2). These scores indicate a nearly Walt Whitman's work as a volunteer during the American Civil War has a greatdeal of influence on his poetry and ways of thinking. He worked
Any people that love eachother will supposedly become invincible (Magill 3559-3560). He states, "Whitman was an original; no one before him had thrust hispresence and actual voice so boldly onto the written page. Whitman also believes that "death andmourning must eventually give way to consolation and hope for the future" (3560). This just goes toshow exactly how Whitman states his views in ways unlike many other poets and how hecomes across to the public of his time. Walt Whitman is viewed in many different ways by critics. Walt Whitman uses large amounts of expression in his poetry. Walt Whitman's ecstatic celebrations of what the self seesand becomes as it travels the cycle of birth, death, and resurrection" (Stepanchev 4). According to Basil De Selincourt in Calamus, "Whitman advocates and to a certainextent himself practiced an affectionate demonstrativeness which is uncongenial to theAnglo-Saxon temperament and which those Englishmen who forgot that there are twosides to the Channel find even shocking. Therefore, Whitman'sworks receive few positive reviews (24 1). This joy releases the poet and reader from all limitations includingtime and space (Whitman xiii).
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