Known as the father of American poetry. But this doesn't mean that Americans didn't write poems before him, but his famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, pioneered American poetry in genre, style and content. Unlike previous American poets, he doesn't imitate English poetry, and he doesn't believe in English poets. On the contrary, he tried his best to write about the American experience and show the American national character. If before Whitman, American poetry can be regarded as a branch of English poetry, then after Whitman, American poetry really made its own voice.
An American poet initiated the free verse style, and his poems had a great influence on China's new poems since the May 4th Movement. Whitman is a famous American democratic poet. He praised democracy and freedom, reflected the American people's desire for democracy, praised the people's creative labor, and gave people a positive and energetic spirit.