Walt_Whitman

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is one of the most significant writers in literature not only in American but also for world literature. He had an interesting life. He was from Long Island, New York and was a New Yorker most of his life. He moved to Brookline with his family at age five, and this had an influence on him. He dropped out of school at age eleven and went to work for a printer. He eventually ends up as a writer for a paper in which he does editorials. He was also a teacher. Although in both professions he got in trouble, he was a good newspaper writer and teacher. He just didn’t like doing the work and he was fired from one newspaper for being lazy. Early in 1850, he had to move back home and live with his family. His family gets tired of him because he loafs around. He does do some carpentry work, but mostly just lies around and reads. Due to his extensive reading, he becomes an expert on Egypt and astronomy. During the Civil War, he works in a hospital in Washington DC area attending to wounded soldiers. He will become our foremost Civil War whitman, work, poet, life, one, because, emerson, poetry, part, new, being, writers, self, much, literature, last, family, everything, emerson’s, american, america, york, years, writer, world, works, war, views, very, twenty, transadentalism, teacher, sexuality, poets, people, pages