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Walter
"Walt" Whitman
Walter Childhood- Young
Walter
" Walt " Whitman was a son of Walter Whitman Sr and Louisa Van Velsor
Whitman . He was called Walt due to his father's name is the same so as to
distinguish him be called” Walt” . Walt was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills
, City of Huntington , Long Island , New York . Walt himself was an American
poet , essay writer and journalist . He’s from transcendentalism
and realism
era.Walt was the second of nine children.
Walt Childhood
experienced the hard time with his family because of Walt family very poor. And
at the end of Walt and his family moved to West Hills to Brooklyn , and life as
it is . When walt age 11
years , he study in formal school. But walt being unable to pay
school money he forced to quit from school.
Walter Early Carreer..
Then to
help families find a second job as Walt becomes Office Boy and Walt had an
internship at one of the news paper and printing . At the age of twelve, Whitman began to learn
the printer’s trade, and fell in love with the written word. And since that
walt getting to serious learn about word and try to write something. Walt learned from the literary
works of famous authors like Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.
In 1836he
began his career as teacher in the school houses of Long Island. He continued
to teach until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. Before
1950 Walt Whitman decided to become a poet, and after experiment with a variety
of genres of the period, He started to write Leaves of Grass, a
collection of poems that took him at least five years to publish.
After
teaching, Whitman went back to Huntington, New York to found his own newspaper
in Long Island. Whitman served as publisher, editor,and distributor. After ten
months, he sold the publication office to E. O. Crowell. Whitman moved to New
York City in May, initially working a low-level job at the New World, working
under Park Benjamin, Sr. and Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
In 1842 he was editor job in the Aurora office
and from 1846 to 1848 he was editor job in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Walt eventually removed from the workplace because of where he works should be
closed because it does not have a license to build the land.
And then
he found a job as editor in weekly Long Island newspaper. But not long time
Walt worked place is bankrupt and he was looking for a job in Huntington, New
York and began working as a publisher . Since Walt learned as a publisher he
began writing and composing poetry and publish it .
Poems that
Walt created inspired from the life of Walt sexuality and about the political
world such as the abolition of colonial slavery . Often in Whitman poems, he always talking and expressed about sexuality and often times He gets criticism from some other writers because his poetry inappropriate to read. When Whitman young, he was very concerned about the political situation and he also supports Wilmot Proviso to abolish slavery in the past.
Poetry
Walt successful release is a collection of poems entitled Leaves grass in 1850.
After a few months a lot of negative feedback from the readers of a book of
Walt poetry titled is “Leaves Of Grass”
. Many responded that Walt 's poem is a poem that is not worth reading because
most of the poem by Walt. Walt depict sexuality life poem so that the reader
has been found not true and does not deserve to be read .
Civil Wars
era..
In civil
wars years Whitman published his poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" as a
patriotic rally call for the North. Whitman's brother, George had joined the
Union army and began sending Whitman letters of the battle. Whitman to
volunteer as a nurse in the army hospitals.
He would
to write of this experience in "The Great Army of the Sick",
published in a New York newspaper in 1863 and, 12 years later, in a book
called” Memoranda During the War” .He then contacted Emerson, this time to ask
for help to get a government post.
Walter Adult until Died..
Whitman
family had a difficult life in 1864. On September 30, 1864, Whitman's brother,
George was captured by Confederates in Virginia and another whitman brother,
Andrew Jackson, died of tuberculosis compounded by alcoholism on December 03.
And then whitman friend, William Douglas O'Connor whitman get position in
Department of the Interior as low-grade employee in the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Whitman
started to good and hard work on January 24, 1865, with a salary of $1,200. A
month later, on February 24, 1865, George was freedom from capture and his
health is very bad. On May 1, Whitman received a promotion to a highly employee
in his office and published by Drum-Taps.
On June
30, 1865, however, Whitman was out from
his job. Because they assume that the work of Walt's not worth reading so that they are get angry at the O'Connors having published walt as employees in their company.
A lot of criticism from some of the other writers that whitman poems encroaching boundaries
of poetic form and is generally prose. He also gives the symbols and images in his poetry inappropriate like rotting leaves, straw, and debris. He also
wrote about death and sexuality, including prostitution.
Whitman is someone who from young to old he had never tasted drink alcohol. He once claimed he did not taste
"Alcohol" until he was thirty years old. Whitman wrote the novel of
popularity of the Washingtonian movement though the movement itself was disturb
with contradictions, as was Franklin Evans. Many Years later Whitman claimed he was
embarrassed with his book and called it a "damned rot" or books that fail in the making, so Walt called his book
that name.
Whitman's sexuality is generally assumed to be homosexual or
bisexual based on his poetry. His poetry said about love and sexual. Leaves of
Grass was often labeled pornographic or obscene, only one critic remarked on
its author's just presumed sexual activity. Whitman had intense friendships
with many man and boys throughout his life. Some biographers have claimed that
he may not have marriage because he has a relationships with another man.
Some of the men closest to walt whitman is Peter Doylewas a bus conductor whom Whitman met around 1866. An
the second In 1924 Edward Carpenter, an old man, who described an erotic
relationship with Walt. Bill Ducketta
young teenage boy he lived in on the same street in Camden and moved in with
Whitman, living with him until a few years ago.
Walt has relationship with a young man is Harry Stafford. He stayed when at Timber Creek with Walt ,
and whom he first met when the young man was 18 years old. In 1876. Whitman give Stafford a ring, which
Stafford was returned and given back the ring to Walt.
Not long after a few
years Walt disease stroke and he had to live temporarily with his
brother to be treated. At the end of his life walt continue the work of his
poem leaves of grass with a different poem . Walt wrote the last poem
titled “Deathbed Edition " was the last work that Walt made the
collection of poems .
Walt died
of bronchial pneumonia and lung damage . Until his final resting Walt and many
people come in Walt 's funeral . And
at the end of his life he was not marriage because Walt just only focus to
finish his work before he died. Whitman died on March 26, 1892. Another public
ceremony was held at the cemetery. And Later, the remains of Whitman's parents
and two of his brothers and whitman families were moved to the cemetery Whitman
families.
About his
poem from Collected poem “Leaves Of Grass”
In early
1850, he began writing what would become Leaves of Grass. At the end of
June 1855, Whitman surprised his brothers with the already-printed first
edition of Leaves of Grass. George "didn't think it worth reading".
Whitman paid for the publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. A
total of 795 copies were already printed. The first edition of negative criticism from some people because of poetry published by walt is not worth
reading because it contains
elements of pornography.
On July
11, 1855, a few days after Leaves of Grass was published, Whitman's father died
at the age of 65. During the first publications of Leaves of Grass, Whitman had
financial difficulties and was forced to work as a journalist again,
specifically with Brooklyn's Daily Times starting in May 1857. He left the job in 1859.
Though the
first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and
re-writing Leaves of Grass and revising it in several editions until his death.
many literary writers who commented on the negative walt worked and also making the of ridicule works just as rubbish and dirty that are not worth reading. Even several times Walt had to revise his work because it does
not clear in society.
About the poem from collected poem “Leaves Of Grass” titile “A Child Amaze” (1819-1892)
A CHILD’S AMAZE
Silent and amazed even when a little boy,
I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his
statements,
As contending against some being or influence.
Analyze this poem:
I think this poem tells about his life when he
was child. He get difficult and hard life until he cannot continued his school
and then he must working hard to help his parent. He can not feel happiness and can not enjoy his youth with his friends so it could be said that Walt was very pity with his childhood and perhaps this is a poem by Walt adapted from his life because from childhood to adulthood he had to earn money to support and help his family. And also when he was
a child in church. He creates an image of a child in church always hear the
priest how can to talking with GOD maybe. This entire poem is a type of
flashback of Walt Whitman Child memorize , and this poem give something imagery
has a strong effect on the reader's perception I think.
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