alias: Walt Whitman
Nationality: United States
Place of birth: new york, United States
Date of birth: May 31, 181
Date of death: March 26, 1892
Major achievement: outstanding American democratic poet in the 19th century
. He comes from a peasant family. Worked as a carpenter, compositor, teacher, newspaper editor and clerk. He wrote a lot of poems in his life and compiled them into Leaves of Grass. Whitman's creation is divided into three periods. Before the Civil War, his poems mainly opposed slavery and national oppression, praised freedom and democracy, praised working people and described nature and people. During this period, he wrote poems such as "Song of My Own" and "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry All the Way". During the Civil War, he inspired people to fight against slavery, praised war heroes and mourned the assassination of President Lincoln. Novels, poems and literary works include a collection of poems, Ya Gu Ji. After the war, Whitman's poems exposed the hypocrisy of bourgeois democracy, eulogized the European revolutionary movement and praised human material civilization. His poems include The Mysterious Trumpeter and The Road to India. In art, Whitman broke the traditional poetic rules and created the form of \ "free body \" to fully express his thoughts and feelings. His creation has a great influence on the development of European and American poetry. Song of My Own, Song of My Drum, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry All the Way, Mysterious Trumpeter, The Road to India, etc.