1. In style, Whitman completely abandoned the old rules and regulations and expressed his free thoughts in the form of free body.
2. In freehand brushwork, he was influenced by the photography technology just invented at that time. In addition to the pursuit of taking pictures, a line of poems captures the moment of that moment and shows movement in a static state.
He eulogized "gay love" loudly, and optimistically predicted that a new era of gay love would come.
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Masterpiece Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass is the most important work in Whitman's poetry collection, named after the poem "Where there is soil, there is water, there is grass". The poems in the anthology are like grass growing all over the United States, full of vitality and emitting attractive fragrance. They are world-famous masterpieces and create 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. ?
1856, the second edition of Leaves of Grass was published, and * * * received 32 poems. Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry is one of the poet's best works. Besides, Song of the Bold Axe and Song of the Road are also masterpieces.
1859 The Christmas edition of Saturday Weekly published an excellent lyric poem by Whitman, which comes from the cradle that never stops swinging. It is an ode to love and death. The following year, at the request of a publisher in Boston, the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, which was the first "official publication".
There are 124 new poetry collections, including Never-ending Cradle and three groups of poems called Song of Democracy, Descendants of Adam and Reed Flute.
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