Who knows the origin of the name of Leaves of Grass? Where there is soil, there is water.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of romantic poems by Whitman, an American writer in the 19th century. It contains more than 300 poems. The poetry collection is named after the poem "Where there is soil, where there is water, there is grass".

The blade of grass is the most common and vital thing, symbolizing the vigorous development of America at that time. Through the feeling and image of "self", the poetry anthology enthusiastically praised the United States in the rising period of capitalism.

Whitman loved democracy and freedom since he was a child. He only studied for five or six years and went out to make a living as a teenager. He worked as a compositor, carpenter, plasterer, village teacher and editor. Whitman is diligent and studious, and reads a lot of world literature masterpieces in his spare time. He began to write poems in11940s, and published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. In a letter to a friend, he said: "Remember, this book emerged from my life in Brooklyn 1838 to 1853, which absorbed millions of people and fifteen years of life; That kind of intimacy, that kind of enthusiasm, that kind of intoxication is simply unparalleled. "

Leaves of Grass is a collection of Whitman's life's works and a brilliant milestone in the history of American poetry. The work contains rich and profound ideological content, which fully reflects the American zeitgeist in the middle of19th century. The poet eulogizes the "land of democracy" of the United States from the standpoint of radical bourgeois democracy;

There were no slaves and no slave owners.

People there immediately rose up against the candidate's endless excesses,

The cry of men and women there to die bravely is like a raging sea.

Where external rights always follow internal rights,

Citizens there always have brains and ideals, and the president, mayor and governor are only paid employers.

There, children are taught how to manage themselves and rely on themselves.

Events there are always settled peacefully,

Where spiritual exploration is encouraged,

Women paraded in the streets like men,

There, they went to public meetings and got seats like men.

In Leaves of Grass, there is a pantheistic praise of nature and self. Pantheism worships nature and regards everything in nature as a god. This poem highly praised the magnificence, magic and greatness of nature:

When climbing the mountain, I climbed carefully alone, holding a twig in my hand.

Walking on a road full of grass and leaves,

Quails sing among the wheat fields and the Woods,

Bats fly at dusk in July, and huge scarabs land in the dark.

Streams gushed from the old roots and flowed to the grass.

The blade of grass is a kind of grass that grows all over the United States. It is always full of vitality and smells attractive. It is a world-famous masterpiece, which initiated a new era of American national poetry. The author made a bold innovation in the form of poetry, created a "free body" poetry form, broke the traditional poetry rhythm, and took punctuation as the basis of rhythm. The rhythm is free and unrestrained, Wang Yang is free and unrestrained, with a torrent of momentum and all-encompassing capacity.