LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Question
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Walt Whitman’s wife died at a young age
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False, she died when she was 65
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False, she died when she was 32
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True, she was 21
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False, his wife was not mentioned
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Walt Whitman died on March 26, 1892, at his home in Camden, New Jersey at the age of 72.
Detailed explanation-2: -Walt Whitman generally holds an optimistic attitude toward death. He thinks there is death in life and life in death, and there is no sadness in death, and death is such a “lucky” thing as life is.
Detailed explanation-3: -With Whitman, we might mark the onset of his old age to 1873 when he suffered the first of several strokes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Whitman deals with death as a fact of life. Death in life is a fact, but life in death is a truth for Whitman; he is thus a poet of matter and of spirit.
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