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