"The hero is the poet." Walt Whitman is a poet of men, goodness, and women. His words have such feeling as if he was oozing with emotion. His words touch my soul as many other readers agree. He was born May 31, 1819 into parents of English and Dutch decent, they kept a farm in The Western hills of Long Island, New York and what is now today the town of Huntington and grew on a farm. He lived to be seventy-three. He worked hard and never gave up when there was a dispute over his very own and original writing style. I am not really into poetry but I make an exception for Walt Whitman.
Whitman struggled to support himself through most of his life. In Washington he lived on a clerk's salary and modest royalties, and spent any excess money, including gifts from friends, to buy supplies for the patients he nursed. He had also been sending money to his widowed mother and an invalid brother. From time to time writers both in the states and in England sent him "purses" of money so that he......
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