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Walt Whitman and the use of poetry
Title: Walt Whitman and the use of poetry
Category: Literature / English
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Walt Whitman and the use of poetry
Every poem is an answer to the question: what is poetry for? Write about how any one
poet has confronted this question in his or her work.
Every poem is the poet’s attempt to answer the question: what is poetry for, and no less
the work of Walt Whitman, perhaps one of American’s greatest poets. In “Song of Myself”, he
wrote “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the …showed first 75 words of 1295 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1295 total…emotions that come with knowledge.
Walt Whitman wrote that “The words of the true poem give you more than poems/ They give
you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behaviour, histories, essays, daily
life and everything else” in “Song of the Answerer”. What is poetry for? It gives one a
perspective into life, past the superficiality of appearances, and in understanding life better, gain
more experience.
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**Bibliography**
1. Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass"
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