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Title: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)


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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
  • American Literature I
  • 11/22/2004
  • Cecilia H. C. Liu

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Outline
  • Introduction Whitman and Leaves of Grass
  • Whitmans Song of Myself
  • Whitmans Portrays of Slavery in Song of Myself
    (Critics comments)
  • Whitmans There Was a Child Went Forth
  • Suggestive Readings
  • Works Cited

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Whitman and Leaves of Grass
  • Walt Whitman is one of the 1st generation of
    Americans who were born in the newly formed US
    and grew up in the stable existence of the new
    country.

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  • One of the haziest periods of Whitmans life is
    the occurrence of the Civil War, when Whitman
    encountered casualties of the war. During this
    time, he visited wounded soldiers who moved to
    New York hospitals, and wrote about them in "City
    Photographs" published in 1862.
  • During the time of his hospital service, Whitman
    wrote about the war experience, but not the
    aftereffects, such as the moonl