Walt Whitman is one of the world's most famous poets. What is memorable about his writing is that he usually doesn't rhyme, yet, he can still make a poem sound just as well. He became well skilled at writing when he was younger, and he wrote for newspapers. Walter lived with a family of eleven. He was involved with many democratic activities.Walt Whitman was born in 1819, near Huntington, Long Island, New York. Walt Whitman lived with a family of eleven. Walt was the second oldest. His fathers name was Walter Whitman. His mother's name was Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. Walt attended a public school until he was eleven. That was the last of formal schooling for him. For a brief time, Walt was an office boy for a physician and then he helped in a law firm. His next job was an apprentice to a printer. In the printing office, Walt learned how to spell, punctuate and acquired the rudiments of prose style.
When Walt Whitman was younger, he use to write for his own newspaper called, "Long Islander." He only kept it going for about one year though. Working with newspapers before he started his own, Walt learned how to use the equipment needed for the making of newspapers.
Walt was active with many political activities. One of the activities was when the U. S. A. was having a war with Mexico in the middle 1800s. Walt Whitman loved to write poems about Abraham Lincoln. He was also furious at Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Boothe, because Abraham had been a good president. Nobody could ever be just like Abraham.
Walt Whitman once wrote a poem so strange, no publisher would publish it. That didn't stop Walt. He decided to publish the poem himself with some other poems so he could make a book. He called the book Leaves Of Grass.
"I think Whitman's poetry flows and sounds very beautiful when put together and read aloud. Walt Whitman is one of the world's best poets. I'm always going to remember Walter for his friendship with Abe. He didn't really know Abe personally but acted as if he did. He would have do anything to bring Abe to life. Even if he had to lose his own.
A Noiseless Patient SpiderI mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand, |
I think the poem "The Noiseless Patient Spider" was written because Whitman was thinking of a bridge. Spiders can make bridges for themselves. It makes me feel in between beauty and ugliness; ugliness because of the image created in my head. When Walt threw all those verbs at me, "musing", "venturing", "throwing", "seeking", it kid of gives me an image of a spider that might seem kind of raged. Beauty is also what I see in this picture, also. I see it and hear it, the words flow when put together and read aloud, sound beautiful.
Walt Whitman used several techniques in his poem "The Noiseless Patient Spider" He used Imagery when he wrote when he explained the spider "launching filament." He used Paradox when he described the spider launching filament. His Point of View is third person, and he uses two stanzas.
Walt died in 1892. He lived to be 73. He had a stroke years before his death. Some say he had another stroke that killed him, others say, he was just very old and it just was his time to die. Walt Whitman is such a famous poet because he wrote so many poems about a famous person. Walt wrote a lot of poems about Abraham Lincoln. He also is famous because once, he published his own book called Leaves Of Grass. Walt Whitman was different than most poets. He will always be remembered as the "All American Writer".>
Researched and written by Lani
