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He ranked second in nine brothers and sisters. In 1823, the Whitman family moved to Brooklyn, New York. Whitman only took six years to learn, and then began to do printing apprentice. Whitman is basically self-taught, he particularly likes to read Homer, Dante and Shakespeare's works.
After two years of apprenticeship, Whitman moved to New York City and began working at different printers. In 1835, he returned to Long Island, where he taught in a rural school. Between 1838 and 1839, he had a newspaper called "The Long Island" in his hometown. He had been teaching until 1841, after which he returned to New York and became a journalist. He also served as a freelance writer in some mainstream magazines, or published political speeches.
Whitman's political speech aroused the attention of the Tanzanian Association, who made him a editor of some newspapers, but did not have a long job. During his two years as an influential newspaper "The Brooklyn Eagle", the split within the Democrats made it possible to support the Free Land Party that he left the job. After he failed to try to run newspapers for free land, he began to float in different jobs. Between 1841 and 1859, he edited a newspaper in New Orleans, two newspapers in New York and four newspapers in Long Island. In New Orleans, he witnessed the slaves auction - something that was common at the time. At this time, Whitman began to focus on writing poetry.
The 1940s were the first harvest of Whitman's long-term work: in 1841 he published short stories, and a year later he published the novel "Franklin Evans" in New York. The first edition of the leaf set was published by himself at the time of his publication in 1855 and his father's death. But his collection consists of 12 long untitled poems. A year later, in the second edition of the grass leaves, together with Emerson's congratulatory letter published together. The second edition has 20 poems. Emerson has been looking forward to a new American poet, "Now I am in the" grass set "to find.
After the American Civil War, Whitman was in the Ministry of the Interior as a clerk, but when the then Minister of the Interior Minister James Harlan discovered that he was "annoying" the author of the "Grass Leaf Set", he dismissed Whitman The
To the seventh edition of 1881, due to rising popularity, this version of poetry to be popular. The income from the collection makes Whitman buy a house in Camden, New York.
Whitman died on March 26, 1892, and was buried in Harleigh, under his own tombstone.
Walt Whitman (Walt Whitman, May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was born in Long Island, New York, a famous American poet, humanist, who created the free body of poetry (Free Verse ), Its representative works are poems "grass leaves set".
Born
Poet. May 31, 1819 was born in Long Island. The father was farming, and the poor moved to Brooklyn, working as a carpenter and building a house. He was interested in the imagination of the socialist thinker and the composer of the democratic thinker, Paine. Whitman studied in public schools, served as rural teachers; childhood also had a messenger, learned typography. Later in the newspaper work, has become editor. He likes to wander, meditate, and enjoy the beauty of nature; but he prefers the city and the streets, like opera, dance, speech, like reading Homer, Greek tragedy and Dante, Shakespeare's works. From February 1846 to January 1848, he was editor of the "Brooklyn Eagle". In 1848 went to New Orleans to edit the newspaper and soon returned to Brooklyn. After five or six years, he helped the old father to build a house, operating a small bookstore, a small printing factory, free to loose, free to wander; and teenager, enjoy and boatman, navigator, coachman, mechanic, fisherman , Handyman, etc. make friends.
Grass set
1855 "grass leaves set" the first version of the advent of a total of 12 poems, and finally out of the 9th edition of a total of 383 poems. One of the longest one, that is later known as the "song of their own" that poem. A total of 1336 lines. The content of this poem almost includes the author's main thought of his life, is one of the most important poems of the author. The poem has repeatedly mentioned the grass leaves: grass leaves symbolize all ordinary, ordinary things and ordinary ordinary people. This epic poetry is universally cold, and only Emerson wrote a warm letter to the poet. Whitman received great encouragement from this letter.
"Grass set" is the most important work of Whitman poetry, named after the concentration of such a poem: "Where there is soil, where there is water, where the long grass." Poems in the poems like the United States The earth's grass, vibrant and exudes attractive aroma. They are world famous masterpiece, created a new era of American national poetry. The author has bold innovation in the form of poetry, created the "free body" of the poetic form, breaking the traditional poetry of the law, to break the sentence as the basis of rhythm, the rhythm of free and unrestrained, Wang Yang unrestrained, Shu volume freely, with blew of momentum and no Not the capacity of the package.
1856, the second edition of "grass leaves set" published a total of 32 poems. "All the way through the Brooklyn ferry" is one of the poet's best works. In addition, "the song", "song of the road" is also famous.
In 1859, "Saturday Weekly" published on the Christmas number of Whitman's excellent lyrics "from the never-ending swing in the cradle", this is a love and death of the carol. The next year should be a publication of Boston, please print the "grass leaves set" version 3, this poem is the first "official publication". There are 124 new poems, including "from the never-ending swing cradle" and three groups were named "song of democracy", "Adam's descendants", "reed" poetry.
War era
During the Civil War, Whitman, as a firm democratic fighter, showed his deep humanitarian character.
When the war intensified, he took the initiative to Washington to serve as a nurse, all day care and injury of the soldiers, resulting in serious damage to health. His life is very hard, by copying the date, the money saved in the sick and wounded. He served as a nurse for nearly two years, approaching about 100,000 soldiers, and many later kept in touch with him.
Postwar life
After the war, Whitman was appointed as a small staff member of the Indian Affairs Office of the Ministry of the Interior. Soon the minister found that he was the author of the "Grass Leaf Set" and dismissed him; he later served in the office of the Minister of Justice for eight years. As a result of the exercise in the civil war, increased experience, political thought has also been improved, his creation has entered a new stage. In 1865, Whitman in New York at their own expense printed his poems in the late civil war "桴 drum set", which received a total of 53 new poems. A few months later he published a sequel, including the memorial Lincoln's famous "recently lilac in the courtyard when the open."
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