He is the son of a carpenter, but he loves poetry.
His first book of poetry was printed 1000 copies, but unfortunately, none of it was sold. He had to give up all these poems. At that time, the famous American poets Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes and others who achieved great success simply dismissed this booklet, and the great poet John Greenleaf Whittier even threw it into the stove. Because in their eyes, the carpenter's son doesn't deserve to write poetry at all.
All aspects of the cold and bristle, like the north wind in winter, his heart suddenly froze into ice. Just when he was almost desperate, he unexpectedly received a reply from a poet, who praised his poetry collection and said, "I think this is the essence of the greatest wisdom that America can contribute so far."
This sincere praise and approval made him seem to be on the verge of death and saw the dawn of hope. Since then, he has strengthened his belief in writing poetry. Many years later, he became a great poet recognized by the United States and even the whole world, and his only collection of poems became a classic in the history of American and even human poetry.
He is walt whitman, and his poetry collection is called Leaves of Grass. The poet who wrote to praise and encourage him was Emerson, a famous poet in the American literary world at that time.
Walt whitman (1865438+May 3, 20091Sunday-65438+March 26, 20892), born in Long Island, new york, is a famous American poet and humanist. He wrote free poems, including Leaves of Grass.
Whitman studied in a public school and worked as a rural teacher. When I was a child, I also worked as a messenger and learned typesetting. Later, I worked in a newspaper and became an editor. He likes roaming, meditation and the beauty of nature; But he prefers cities and streets, likes opera, dance and oratory, and likes reading Homer, Greek tragedies, Dante and Shakespeare. From February 1846 to February 1848, he was the editor of Brooklyn Eagle. 1848 went to New Orleans to edit the newspaper, and soon returned to Brooklyn. In the next five or six years, he helped his elderly father build a house, run a small bookstore and a small printing house, and wandered around. Just like when I was a teenager, I made friends with boatmen, navigators, coachmen, mechanics, fishermen, handyman and so on.
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.