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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman. By: SW, CC, SH. Open Ended Questions…. How would he like modern day movies? What is his back ground?  What influenced him? What is his Writing style? What are some of his poems?. Background. Born May 31 st 1819, near Huntington Long Island, New York.

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Walt Whitman

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  1. Walt Whitman By: SW, CC, SH

  2. Open Ended Questions… • How would he like modern day movies? • What is his back ground? •  What influenced him? • What is his Writing style? • What are some of his poems?

  3. Background • Born May 31st 1819, near Huntington Long Island, New York. • He is the second child of eight. • He was mostly self-educated.

  4. Influences • Italian Opera- witch inspired him to write leaves of Grass • Shakespeare • The Bible • Emerson- Who helped Whitman to find himself http://www.wisegorilla.com/images/UK/Shakespeare.jpg http://www.thbc.com/Uploads/bible2.jpg http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs /images/Emerson_Ralph_1.jpg

  5. Writing Style • Whitman incorporated natural speech rhythms into poetry. • He disregarded meter, but the overall effect has a melodic character.

  6. Quotes by Whitman • “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” • “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” • “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” • “If you done it, it ain’t bragging.” http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Walt_Whitman

  7. Poems Once I Pas`s'd Through A Populous City Once I Pas`s'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, tradition,Yet now of all that city I remember only a man I casually met there who detained me for love of me,Day by day and night by night we were together — all else has long been forgotten by me,I remember I saw only that man who passionately clung to me,Again we wander, we love, we separate again,Again he holds me by the hand, I must not go,I see him close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous. http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/whitman.htm

  8. Modern Day Movies • Because Whitman used natural speech rhythms and his overall effect had a melodic character we believe that Whitman may enjoy a musical like cats or maybe even The Phantom of the Opera. • We also believe that Whitman probably wouldn’t like the modern day Romeo and Juliet because the makers make it too modernized. They should keep the old dialog and not change it.

  9. Pictures of Walt Whitman www.wtv-zone.com www.usc.edu www.waltwhitmanpoetryfestival.com

  10. Works Cited • Lehigh University , "Biography." Biography of Walt Whitman 03/07/07 <http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs/people/pintro/>. • Central state design, "Walt Whitman Poetry Festival." 03/07/07 <http://www.waltwhitmanpoetryfestival.com/>. • Rictor Norton, "Walt Whitman, Prophet of Gay Liberation", The Great Queens of History, updated 18 Nov. 1999 <http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/whitman.htm>. • University of Southern California, "Whitman." 03/07/07 <http://www.usc.edu/>. • Mocure, Michael. "Quotations by Author." 03/07/07 <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Walt_Whitman>.

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