Walt Whitman

I chose to
talk about
this subject
because Walt
Whitman is
my favorite
author
Walter "Walt"
Whitman was
an American
poet, essayist,
and journalist.
Whitman is
among the
most
influential
poets in the
American
‘The father of free verse’
canon.
Walter Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Town of
Huntington, Long Island and was the second of nine children.
In the spring of 1855, Whitman, self-published a slim collection of 12
unnamed poems with a preface titled Leaves of Grass
He was against alcohol He was influenced by deism
Walt Whitman is often described as
America’s national poet, creating
an image of America for itself.
Lots of things bear his name