ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Whitman experimented with meter, rhythm, and form because he thought that experimentation was the law of the changing times, and that innovation was the gospel of the modern world. Whitman’s fondness for trochaic movement rather than iambic movement shows the distinctive quality of his use of meter.

Detailed explanation-2: -The verse collection Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s best-known work. He revised and added to the collection throughout his life, producing ultimately nine editions. The poems were written in a new form of free verse and contained controversial subject matter for which they were censured.

Detailed explanation-3: -Whitman’s most well-known work, Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855 by Whitman himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -The idea that poetry above all else must be true to life is Whitman’s first principle. His is a deeply mimetic, realist commitment. Rhythms and forms, content, language, all must be drawn from life.

Detailed explanation-5: -After the Civil War, Walt Whitman realized that the American people were in need of their own identity. Therefore, he wrote the book “Leaves of Grass” with the goal of creating a literature piece that was authentic and organic to the United States in every sense.