Walt Whitman's Influence On American Poetry

this great epic is born and grows with the intent to define man and the American nation against the Anglo-Saxon cultural domination. His controversial break, formal and conceptual, with traditional poetic canon was such that it is said that all subsequent American poetry is an ongoing dialogue with Whitman; even much of Western poetry, from the Spanish García Lorca to the Caribbean Walcott, drink from this source of inspiration, The poems express feelings: love, grief, joy, wonder, spirituality, but also express the context, in this case, the political context of democracy and peace or bloody war. All this enclose Whitman's poems while releasing a deep attachment to nature and spiritual elevation. In his verses are 'the stars, rain, snow, my
amazement ...' birds, trees, water flowing, the wind sighs. The verses dedicated to the mystical-religious, distill the sacredness of a higher order, life created, organized and guarded by the One who has not should look at death as salvation, but in the life that has been generously given away. Poetry to learn, to think and to ... feel.