Leaves of Grass is a kind of grass that grows all over the United States, always full of vitality and exudes attractive fragrance. It is a world-famous masterpiece, which initiated a new era of American national poetry. The author has made bold innovations in the form of poetry, creating a "free-body" poetic form, breaking the traditional poetic rhythm, and taking punctuation as the basis of rhythm. The rhythm is free and unrestrained, and Wang Yang is unrestrained and comfortable, with a torrent of momentum and all-encompassing capacity. Such as "Oh, captain, my captain! I hear America singing
Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems named after the most ordinary, common, dense and endless things in nature, is a representative collection of poems by Whitman, the greatest romantic poet in American history, with profound connotation and magnificent weather. He created a new poetic style, which had a considerable influence on the American and even the world poetic circles. The complete collection contains Whitman's 12 poems from the first edition in 1855 to 41 poems in 1892, which records the poet's life's thought and exploration, and also reflects the face of his times and country. Therefore, this is not only his personal epic, but also an American epic in the 19th century.
In some ways, there is no other example in the history of world literature, which can reflect the relationship between a work and its author's breathing, life and death like Leaves of Grass and Whitman. Just like Whitman's "Goodbye" at the end of the collection of poems (edited)! "Comrade, this is not a book,/whoever touches it is touching a person." This man is the poet himself.