Part 1 of Essay
All Alone Walter Whitman was an American poet of the 1800’s. Walt was arguably one of America’s influential and innovative poets of his time. Whitman began work as a printer and journalist in the New York City area. He wrote articles on politics, civics, and the arts. During the Civil War, Whitman was a volunteer assis ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... believed that Leaves of Grass had grown with his own intellectual development. Calamus, a section of poems in Leaves of Grass is a section talking about love and friendship. Poems in Calamus have been put in and taken out through the years with the revisions of the book. Two poems that can be found in Calamus today are “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” and “To a Stranger.” These two poems have not been Calamus together since the beginning of the book, but now they are together and very similar. Since ....