As a young man,Whitman worked as a school teacher,a printer and a newspaper reporter.He was thirty-six years old when his first book of poetry was published.He called it Leaves of Grass.It has only twelve poems.The poems are written in free verse.The lines do not follow any set form.Some lines are short and some are long.The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound.They do not rhyme.
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________.
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