Life of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman is hotshot of the most eminent poets of the States who expressed the condition of nineteenth century American society in his moulds, which eer reflected the cruel, unjust and discerning face of the country. In his period the Americans reviewed those illustrations unpatriotic so his poetic license was very much condemned. At the conviction of his end only he got recognition by his country.Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, new-fashioned York. His drive, Walter Whitman, Sr., was a carpenter and farmer. Whitman was named after his father. His origin was mixed with English and Dutch. He was the succor son of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor, the granddaughter of a sea captain. When Walt was non just neertheless four long beat old, Walter Sr. with his family that consisted of nine infantren locomote to Brooklyn, which was a maturement city, across from in the buff York. As he was not successful in any of his pot so he decided to try hi s caboodle in house building. And when Walt was six year old, General Lafayette who visited the tonic York that time carried him. This is described in some of Walts stories (Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price).Walt was born in a newly shaped United States. The young Whitman got lots of opportunities to gather view from his farm smell and the new city society that helped him to prepare his perspective for writing. Walts love for living close to the East River later reflected in his poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, create in 1856 where he has shared out his experience that how as a child he used to bug ferries onwards and reverse to New York city. That was the most reminiscent experience in his bearing. This daily commuting became the symbol of the way from life to death and to life again (Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price).In Brooklyn Whitman finished his elementary culture. He spent his six years in Brooklyn public school with polar backgrounds and develop group children. He descr ibed later in his journals and poetry that he never want physical punishment in schools. Except this formal nurture of schooling he received most of the significant education from outside equivalent visiting museums and libraries and by attending lectures. He never forgot the first swell lecture given by Quaker leader, Elias Hicks who was a very profound friend of his grandfather Jesse.In his boyhood, Whitmans one of the favorite activities was to visit his grandparents on massive Island and the beauty of that mystical land attracted him a lot. His love to that key out is revealed from his poem Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. As Whitman grew up in both places like growing and energetic city Brooklyn and idle Long Island countryside, the double adherence of urban and rural life can be marked out in his poetry (Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price).When Whitman finished his formal schooling, at the age of eleven, he started working as a clerk in a local office of some lawyers wh ere his work was related to the libraries and in that respect he got chance to start with his informal education. His love to get tenanted with everyone in conversation and discussion to a fault increased his knowledge. He was also a nonstop reader. When other celebrated writers of his time were taking well-arranged education from private institutions, Whitman was busy in gathering information about history, literature, medication and some other fields from the fastest growing city New York.In 1831 he learnt printing trade during being an apprentice in Patriot, a newspaper and started liking written word. Here he observed how the thoughts could be changed in to language and soon could be transmitted to the readers. As he was mainly egotism-taught, he became familiar with the works of Dante, Shakespeare, Homer and the Bible. At the age of twelve only he also added his words in the newspaper.In 1833, his family moved back to the West Hills. Whitman was alone in the city experienci ng the freedom that could turn his occupational group. These were the years, which taught him the changing parameters of life that reflects in his poetry also. In his poetry, journalism and prose one can queue focus on the history of Brooklyn, Long Island and New York City.Walt was living separately from his family and was increasing his knowledge from different sources like in the libraries he read about Sir Walter Scott, James Cooper and other romance novelists. He saw the theatres where he liked Shakespeare a lot. Richard III had always been Whitmans favorite play. He gathered lots of knowledge from different lectures of Francis Wright who was a Scottish Womens right advocate (Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price).At the age of cardinal he was about to set his career in the printing trade and news paper when in two cases of fire destruction in the printing industry of New York city stopped him and in 1836 Whitman joined his family back in Hampstead.Though Whitman had very little fo rmal education placid he developed some skills of reading and writing through the trade of apprentice in the newspaper. That was sufficient for the type of teaching he could do for some time. He opposed his father who wanted him to work on their new farm, as he never wanted to be a farmer. Only teaching was the career left for him to support him and his family in a very bad financial situation.In his five years of teaching business he taught in many different towns of Long Island with a very little payment. Whitman proved to be a good teacher and he encouraged the students to think instead of only reciting. He discouraged the punishment and he involved the students in educational games. Whitmans educational ism can be understood in his poem There Was a Child Went Forth commemorating extra curricular learning. He cherished the variety of education. His suspicion for the classroom is produced from the poem Song Of Myself where a child ask the question What is a grass? and this is the question that deposits Whitman thinking for a simple question. He kept himself energetic by discussing about societies. He also did campaigning for Martin Van Burens and became the hard worker for the elected Party.In 1838, he tried to start his own newspaper The Long island-dweller. He also bought a press and kept his brother George as an assistant. Though he actively wrote, published and edited still, he could not carry long in this field and unwillingly he had to continue in teaching and by 1841 his teaching career was almost at end. He was happy with his newspaper work and could not find ecstasy in teaching.In the late 1840s, Whitman wrote some journalistic pieces and by the early 1860s, he permanently left teaching career, as he did not find himself suited in this career. Then he decided not to make his career in fiction writing, instead establish himself in the career of journalism. His poetry and fiction was published in about twenty newspapers and magazines. His sto ries were published in Democratic Review, the most re modeled magazine of the nation. His stories are full of schoolmaster and psychological matters.His story The Shadow and The Light of a Young realitys Soul narrates Whitmans own attitude. In the story, the hero, Archibald Dean, left the New York City due to a fire incident and took the charge of a school. H e successfully wrote some novella about acclivity somberness movement. Benjamin who was Whitmans partner published his Franklin Evans or the inspire in New World. Whitmans handling romance and passion in this novel is remarkable. Approximately, 20000 copies of Franklin Evans were sold. This was the novel that Whitman completed in three days.Whitman supported temperance movement in his other two stories- Wild Franks Return and The Childs Champion Soon he started another novel The Madman on the theme of temperance but he left it in the middle. It is fancied that his temperance issue came from the drinking habits of his fat her or may be his habit of drinking at the time of school teaching.Whitman and The Leaves of deceiveHaving faith in his own fictional voyage of national importance, Whitman published his Leaves of spate on 4 July 1855. He believed that he could give his poetry to the common men and when Leaves of Grass got published, he imagined himself the poet of America and referred himself one of the roughs, a common man (Pierce A. Jason, 1992).The poem clearly assort Whitmans goal as a national poet who was a self styled poet. Leaves of Grass had the series of reading making the poet and nations life unique (Pierce A. Jason, 1992).His The Leaves of Grass became the notorious collection. In 1855, he got it published privately, as no reputed publisher was ready to publish it. The 19th century Americans were not ready to accept the prevail overs like homo-sexuality, respect for prostitutes, religious references about Adams and Eves that was the subject of this work.Whitman included the urba ne war thing in the third chance variable of The Leaves of Grass as the war erupted in 1861. At that time Abraham capital of Nebraskas assassination affected him a lot and he got inhalant to write his most remarkable poem When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard meridian. His war poetry designationd Drum Taps was added in to Leaves of Grass. He would declare that his leaves of Grass spin around the four years of civil war (Pierce A. Jason, 1992).Whitman was never discouraged. He never stopped revising The Leaves of Grass and kept on adding poems. He added poems at leas eight times. For the first edition of The Leaves of Grass, he paid from his own pocket and got only 795 copies printed. Whitman never put his name on the title page of the book and that was assumed unconventional and it was understood that not putting the name on the title page was much about America not the writer himself.Whitman never got married and never left America. He never lost his hope even in his last years, th ough he was badly criticized for his work The Leaves of Grass. He always kept his self-esteem.In 1881, again the disputable military issue of The Leaves of Grass appeared. Same time Whitman published Specimen Days and bundle up. In 1888, his collection of newspaper pieces November Boughs was published.On May 26, 1892 Whitman died. And after death he got lot of recognition. American poetry got enriched with the poetic ideas of Whitman. He emphasized on the natural and simple way of poetry. His use of free verse put deep effect on the poetry. His poems have variety in rhythm.After his death he left many notes about the intention of writing The Leaves of Grass. He was a tolerant, contended and joyful man. Whitmans place in American history is mysterious. It seems that it is based on the ideas upon which America was established (Pierce A. Jason, 1992).ReferencesBiography of Walt Whitman, http//utut.essortment.com/waltwhitmanbio_pmq.htmFolsom, Ed and Price, Kenneth M., Biography of Wal t Whitman, http//whitmanarchive.org/biography/index.htmlCarpenter Edward, Days with Walt Whitman With Some Notes On his Life and worksFolsom, Ed and Price, Kenneth, Rescripting Walt Whitman An Introduction To His Life and Work.Pierce, Jason A., 1992, Walt Whitman and the development of Leaves of Grass, http//library.sc.edu/spcoll/amlit/whitman.htmlThe Life of Walt Whitman, http//www.poetseers.org/early-american-poets/walt-whitman/whitman-biography/Walt Whitman, http//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wwhitman.htm