Walt Whitman and his Themes of Life Throughout society publishers can make or brake a writer’s career. When a writer must publish his own work many times his work becomes shelved in his own home for the dinner guests to see. In Some cases as this one, you have a writer who publishes his own work and later becomes one of America’s most honored poets and his work hailed as a masterpiece of …showed first 75 words of 1415 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1415 total…have seen nature, friendship, death and defeat. All his writings can only be interpreted the way one sees the writings themselves. The poet died on March 26, 1892. The cause of death was miliary tuberculosis, with other contributing factors. Reader’s remember Whitman for not what he wrote but what he taught through his writings. "O Captain! My Captain!" rise up and hear the bells(Whitman 308) , for they are playing for you and you will be remembered.