Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

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the owner. Afterward, he published three editions of a book called “Leaves of Grass”. These books were a collection of poems, and by the third edition it was a collection of over 146 poems. Then the civil war began and Walt went to Virginia to visit his injured brother. While he was there he volunteered at an army hospital and witnessed the war first hand. This gave his poetry a theme of death, immortality, and the soul. When the war was over, Walt published the seventh edition of “Leaves of Grass”. Walt Whitman died at the age of 73 with now a worldwide reputation.
Poetry has an extraordinarily long history. It supposedly began around 3000 B.C. when writing was not a common practice. Poetry was used as a way to remember traditions and events. The rhyme and rhythm made it so the sequence of words could be remembered more easily. The common theme of poetry typically was about God and heroes. By 750 B.C. the Greeks shaped poetry in a way the is more recognizable to today’s. The ...

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