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His Leaves of Grass has always been considered a monumental work. It commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.
• Edited a newspaper, the LongIslander, in Huntington
• Back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist
• Experienced various jobs
• Began writing a new kind of poetry
• filled with optimistic expectation and enthusiasm about new things and new epoch.
1. The whole hard-working people The burgeoning life of cities. The fast growth of industry and wealth in cities
2. Individual value
3. Pursuit of love and happiness
4. Sexual love
5. The individual person and his desires must be respected.
.
5
Influence
America’s first “poet of democracy”
.
Excerpt from Song of
1
Life
• Born: 31 May 1819 • Birthplace: Long Island,
New York. • Died:26 March 1892
.
2
• Born in a working-class family, son of a carpenter
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you
Myself
Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death.
1. No fixed rhyme and scheme
• Style: free verse
2. A looser and open-ended syntactical structure
3. The habit of using snapshots（快照）
4. Use of conversational image
• At four, family moved to Brooklyn, New York
• Attended public school
• Apprenticed to a printer
• Returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools
.
7
Important Features in Whitman’s Poems
• The first person narrator: “I” the subject in the poem, “you” the reader
Invites us to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.
He is the poet of the common people and the prophet and singer of democracy.
.
6
• Influences the 20th century world literature:
His works is part of western culture / many poets in France, Italy, England, and Latin America are in his debt. His poetry also influences modern American poets such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg.
Whitman brings the hard-working farmers and laborers into American literature ,attack the slavery system and racial discrimination.
.
4
The themes in Whitman's poeห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ry
(free v. erse)
3
Whitman's democratic ideals& individualism
America’s first “poet of democracy”
Whitman's democratic ideas govern his poetry-writing.
In his famous poetry, openness, freedom, and above all, individualism (the belief that the rights and freedom of individual people are most important) are all that concerned him.
• Edited a newspaper, the LongIslander, in Huntington
• Back to New York City to work as a printer and journalist
• Experienced various jobs
• Began writing a new kind of poetry
• filled with optimistic expectation and enthusiasm about new things and new epoch.
1. The whole hard-working people The burgeoning life of cities. The fast growth of industry and wealth in cities
2. Individual value
3. Pursuit of love and happiness
4. Sexual love
5. The individual person and his desires must be respected.
.
5
Influence
America’s first “poet of democracy”
.
Excerpt from Song of
1
Life
• Born: 31 May 1819 • Birthplace: Long Island,
New York. • Died:26 March 1892
.
2
• Born in a working-class family, son of a carpenter
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you
Myself
Walt Whitman was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. Proclaimed the "greatest of all American poets" by many foreign observers a mere four years after his death.
1. No fixed rhyme and scheme
• Style: free verse
2. A looser and open-ended syntactical structure
3. The habit of using snapshots（快照）
4. Use of conversational image
• At four, family moved to Brooklyn, New York
• Attended public school
• Apprenticed to a printer
• Returned to Long Island in 1835 and taught in country schools
.
7
Important Features in Whitman’s Poems
• The first person narrator: “I” the subject in the poem, “you” the reader
Invites us to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.
He is the poet of the common people and the prophet and singer of democracy.
.
6
• Influences the 20th century world literature:
His works is part of western culture / many poets in France, Italy, England, and Latin America are in his debt. His poetry also influences modern American poets such as Pound, T.S. Eliot, Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg.
Whitman brings the hard-working farmers and laborers into American literature ,attack the slavery system and racial discrimination.
.
4
The themes in Whitman's poeห้องสมุดไป่ตู้ry
(free v. erse)
3
Whitman's democratic ideals& individualism
America’s first “poet of democracy”
Whitman's democratic ideas govern his poetry-writing.
In his famous poetry, openness, freedom, and above all, individualism (the belief that the rights and freedom of individual people are most important) are all that concerned him.