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Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

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  • Called America’s national poet
  • Believed in gathering broad experience
  • Developed new kind of poetry—free verse
  • Free verse—poetry that doesn’t have a set rhyme scheme or rhythm
  • Wrote Leaves of Grass—his life’s work
  • Distressed by Civil War
  • Volunteer nurse; wrote of experiences
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vocabulary

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  • Impromptu—adj.—spontaneous, unplanned
  • Contempt—n.—scorn, mockery
  • Incredulity—n.—amazed disbelief
  • Overt—adj.—open, obvious
  • Rendezvoused—v.—met, gathered

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