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Poetry of Walt Whitman

RL.1, 4, 5 &9

RI.10

Objective: To analyze what a text says explicitly and draw inferences in order to support the interpretation of the text with citing textual evidence.

Essential Questions: What role does individualism play in American society?

Mini Bio

Vocabulary:

  • Ampler: enough or more than enough; plentiful.
  • Teeming: to be full of; swarming with
  • Vast: Large, expansive, huge
  • Breadth
  • Prolific: present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful.
  • Multitudes: many

Vocabulary

Basics of Whitman's Poetry

Basics of Whitman's Poetry

What is Whitman's style of poetry?

  • Perhaps the most obvious stylistic trait of Whitman's poetry is the long line, written in free verse.
  • Whitman abandons, almost completely, the metrical tradition of accentual syllabic verse and embraces instead the prosody of the English Bible.

What Whitman's poetry is mainly about:

Walt Whitman is America's world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

  • In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship.

This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to the soul, and found beauty and reassurance even in death.

What are the major theme topics in Walt Whitman's poetry?

  • Subjects of Whitman's poetry included slavery, race, religion, and sexuality.
  • These were topics that were important to ordinary people
  • Even if his ideas on these subjects were different from commonly held ones, and the fact that he wrote about them in first person made them even more meaningful.

Whitman's vocabulary borrows from these disciplines:

  • anatomy.
  • astronomy.
  • carpentry and construction (kelson)
  • military and war terms.
  • nautical terms and terms related to the sea.
  • businesses and professions.
  • flora and fauna of America.

Day 1 Exit Ticket

Essay Assignment: Ensure you are utilizing the ACE writing strategy to complete this assignment.

In his preface to Leaves of Grass, how does Whitman define America's attitude towards the past?

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