od, seem to make his words actually "speak." The mood of his poems go from casual
             instantaneously to intense and intimate and full of many different emotions (27 6-7). The
             poem seems to take on the action of having an actual conversation within itself, with the
             It is stated by Norman Forester, "Belated voice of the romantic spirit of the
             nineteenth century, Whitman spoke with impressive force and sanity to a generation and a
             country beginning to question the life and literature of that 'hysterical sick-chamber,'
             Europe, and oppressed with the conventionalism and materialism of unheroic ante-bellum
             America" (26 1). He continued on to say, "Yet from the beginning man of discernment
             recognized that, for better or worse, a great poetic power had come into the world,
             bringing a fresh vision of nature and of man, a vision strikingly like that of New England
             Transcendentalists and at the same time, quite strikingly unlike" (1). This just goes to
             show exactly how Whitman states his views in ways unlike many other poets and how he
             comes across to the public of his time. Forester clearly explains that Whitman stated his
             Walt Whitman's poetry changes the ways of looking at American poetry. It also
             causes the audience to open and explore their minds. His poetry seems to set up barriers
             in the world of literature. The works at the same time, also seem to be a sort of road map.
             His poems direct the reader to alternate courses that can le
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