LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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True, he had to travel to Louisiana and learn skills for shipbuilding.
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False, Walt Whitman was known as a Renaissance Man who had many skills including painting, writing, and carpentry.
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True, and that is when he found his love for writing poetry
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False, Walt Whitman build ships in Europe and eventually met his wife on one.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
Detailed explanation-2: -Whitman served as the editor of a number of newspapers during his life, beginning with the Long Islander in 1838 and concluding with his tenure at the Brooklyn Daily Times in the late 1850s.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most obvious stylistic trait of Whitman’s poetry is the long line, written in free verse. Whitman abandons, almost completely, the metrical tradition of accentual syllabic verse and embraces instead the prosody of the English Bible.
Detailed explanation-4: -Whitman’s most well-known work, Leaves of Grass was first published in 1855 by Whitman himself.