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Walt Whitman
Title: Walt Whitman
Category: Literature / English
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, New York. He was the second of six children. From 1825-1830, he attended public school in Brooklyn. After his years of education, Walt Whitman experimented with many different jobs. From 1836-1838, Whitman taught at several schools in Long Island. After teaching, Walt Whitman returned to printing and editing in New York. During this time he edited many papers such as the Aurora (daily newspaper), …showed first 75 words of 1219 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1219 total…Lincoln’s sympathy with people everywhere that where struggling to be free. Through all this political matters Whitman and Lincoln fully agreed. They stood for those “axioms of a free society” (Our Literary Heritage, pg. 119).
The poem O Captain! My Captain! was about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Although Whitman had never met Lincoln, Whitman wrote in such great detail that you would believe he was standing next to Lincoln when he was killed.
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