What are the artistic styles of Whitman's poems?

The artistic style of Whitman's poetry is quite different from that of traditional poetry. He loved Italian operas, speeches and surging waves all his life. Western scholars point out that this is the main source of Whitman's poetic rhythm. He only used traditional poetic methods to write a few poems, such as the popular mourning song "Ah, captain, my captain! His poetic lines are closer to the rhythm of spoken and prose poems, without rhyme or regular stress, so they are closer to his thoughts and feelings. His poems stand up to scrutiny,