One of America’s greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass.Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman’s work.But most other poets and writers said nothing or denounced it.

　　The American Civil War began in 1861.During the war，Whitman worked without pay at army hospitals.He helped care for the wounded and dying soldiers.He sat beside these men for hours.He brought them food and wrote letters for them.After the Civil War，Whitman worked for government agencies.He watched the United States try to heal itself and increase democracy.To Walt Whitman，democracy was more than a political system or idea.It was a natural form of government for free people.Whitman believed democracy was meant to honor the rights of every person and the equality of all people.

　　In 1873，Walt Whitman suffered a stroke.He spent the last few years of his life in Camden，New Jersey and wrote more poems.Whitman was poor and weak during the last few years of his life.He died in 1892.

　　36．Walt Whitman expressed his feelings by________.

　　A．singing songs

　　B．celebrating great people

　　C．writing poemsD．praising common people

　　37．Leaves of Grass was published in________.

　　A．1855B．1819C．1861D．187338．The underlined sentence “But most other poets and writers said nothing or denounced it.”(in Paragraph 3) is most likely to tell us that________.

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