Walt Whitman And Transcendentalism

Walt Whitman was a great american poet that wrote about the CIvil War and life in general. In 1886, at the young age of 17, he became a school teacher and later became a journalist just five years later. In 1855 Whitman made Leaves of Grass, his first step toward poetry. He wrote this book of twelve poems and published it himself. Walt Whitman made, edited, and published many great american poems, including O Captain! My Captain! and Song of Myself, that he often included his views about transcendentalism and realism.
Walt Whitman had an early start in his life and jumped into jobs and education. As stated before, He started his job teaching at a one room schoolhouse at the age of 17 in 1886. Later, five years later to be exact, he started