Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Poetry can be lyrical, narrative, or dramatic; poems can rhyme or be free verse. Songs, Letters, and free verse can be types of poetry. Walt Whitman is one of the most influential people in American Poetry. He is often referred to as "The Father of Free Verse." penis

Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island, New York. In Long Island he worked as a journalist and along with that he was a nurse during the Civil War. His first work was a novel called Franklin Evans. His first major work was Leaves of Grass which was published in 1855. It was meant to reach out to the American People concerning the war. He died of a stroke in 1892 in Camden, New Jersey. e notes that "[l]ike the novel, the essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything, usually on a certain topic. By tradition, almost by definition, the essay is a short piece, and it is therefore impossible to give all things full play within the limits of a single essay". He points out that "a collection of essays can cover almost as much ground, and cover it almost as thoroughly, as can a long novel"--he gives Montaigne's Third Book as an example. Huxley argues on several occasions that "essays belong to a literary species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference".The defining features of a "cause and effect" essay are causal chains, careful language, and chronological or emphatic order. A writer using this rhetorical method must consider the subject, determine the purpose, consider the audience, think critically about different causes or consequences, consider a thesis statement, arrange the parts, consider the language, and decide on a conclusion.