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In collection of grass, Walt Whitman includes many poems that describe his thoughts
And the common message across all of the poems is the cycle of life and death
“When lilacs last in the dooryard” In this line Walt Whitman was comparing life and death cycles with the civil war and life it self.
That captures what it means to be human and it shows you the never ending cycle of life and death where lilac is a personification of death.
And one of the most important ideas he discussed is how the human beings are not in touch with nature when it is the only constant thing they have in their lives
And he also said “what is grass” which is a metaphor for the cycle of life
And through out his poems he points out how grass can represent many images and all of them are an excerpt from life and and death

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Theme nature
Walt Whitman wrote a book called leaves of grass explores many ideas and symbol and this poem reflects on the nature world the reason Walt Whitman celebrates elements of nature is because he believed that human being were already a part of nature

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Walt Whitman was born into a family that settled in North America in the first half of the 17th century. He was Born and raised in West hills New york in the US.

His mother and father were of english descent.
He had 7 siblings:
George Washington Whitman
Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Hannah Louisa Whitman
Jesse Whitman
Andrew Jackson Whitman
Mary Elizabeth Whitman
Edward Whitman

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Walt Whitman was born into a family that settled in North America in the first half of the 17th century. He was Born and raised in West hills New york in the US.

His mother was dutch and his father was of english descent.
He had 7 siblings:
George Washington Whitman
Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Hannah Louisa Whitman
Jesse Whitman
Andrew Jackson Whitman
Mary Elizabeth Whitman
Edward Whitman

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Walt Whitman spent his childhood in New York, where he was first employed at age 12 as a printer.
Walt, the second child, attended public school in Brooklyn, began working at the age of 12, and learned the printing trade. He was employed as a printer in Brooklyn and New York City, taught in country schools on Long Island, and became a journalist

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Themes dealt with in his poetry :
I chose democracy :
Whitman is a great democracy. He is considered as the greatest poet of American democracy. A faith in the inherent dignity and nobility of the common man is the very root and basis of Whitman's democracy. In his view all men and women are equal and all professions are equally honorable.

famous poem: Leaves of Grass

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Some of his famous work:
-Song of Myself
-I Sing the Body Electric
-I Hear America Singing
-Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's best-known work. It's a 12-poem volume of poetry. He revised and added to the collection throughout his life, producing ultimately nine editions.

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Walt Whitman famous works and poetry
'Song of Myself'.
'I Sing the Body Electric'.
'I Hear America Singing'

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Walt, the second child-
He attended public school in Brooklyn-
He began working at the age of 12-
He learned- the printing trade-
He was employed as a printer in Brooklyn and New York City and taught in country schools on Long Island, and became a journalist.

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1- Song of myself
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

2- I sing the body electric
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I sing the body electric,

The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,

They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,

And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

3- I hear America Singing
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,

Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,

The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,

The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,

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In his poetry, Whitman widened the possibilities of poetic diction by including slang, colloquialisms, and regional dialects, rather than employing the stiff, erudite language so often found in nineteenth-century verse
Whitman envisioned democracy not just as a political system but as a way of experiencing the world.
Song of myself
I sing the body electric
I hear america singing

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Walt Whitman attended public school in Brooklyn. He began working at the age of 12 and learned the printing trade. He worked as a printer in Brooklyn and New York, taught in country schools on Long Island, and became a journalist. At the age of 23 he edited a daily newspaper in New York, and in 1846 he became editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a fairly important newspaper of the time.

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Walt, the second child, attended public school in Brooklyn, began working at the age of 12, and learned the printing trade. He was employed as a printer in Brooklyn and New York City, taught in country schools on Long Island, and became a journalist.