文档介绍：Walt Whitman 沃尔特·惠特曼 Life Works Career Techniques Themes Influence life(1819-1892) ? Walter Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in Long Island 长岛。 His family is a working-class. ? At age eleven Whitman concluded formal schooling. He then sought employment for further e for his family; He only had five years of schooling. ? During the civil war, whitman worked as a volunteer nurse. ? Whitman died in 1892 because of his bad health. He was buried in Harleigh (哈利公墓) . 328 Mickle Street, Camden Works ? Franklin Evans (1842) -- 《富兰克林·埃文斯》? Leaves Of Grass (1855) -- 《草叶集》? Drum-Taps (1865) ? Memoranda During the War ? Specimen Days(1882) -- 《典型的日子》 1. Song of Myself 2. There Was a Child Went Forth 3. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 4. Democratic Vistas 5. Passage to India 6. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Work : Leaves of Grass Career ? 1. An American poet, essayist and journalist . ? humanist, his works with both views of transcendentalism and realism ? of the great innovators in American literature. ? 4. He gave America its first genuine epic poem: Leaves of Grass. ? 5. Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, ing acquainted with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. themes “ Catalogue of American and European thought ” He had been influenced by many American and European thoughts: enlightenment, idealism, transcendenta- lism, science, evolution ideas, western frontier spirits, Jefferson ’ s individualism, Civil War Unionism, Orientalism. Major themes ? equality of things and beings ? democracy ? death, beauty of death ? brotherhood and social solidarity ? pursuit of love and happiness ? expansion of America ? divinity of everything,immanence of God,evolution of cosmos ,multiplicity of nature , self-reliant spirit Free verse Whitman broke free from the traditional iambic pentameter. recurrence, ic recurrence,,