Walt+Whitman

=Walt Whitman: by Michael, Ally C, and Mia=  Walt Whitman =Facts=
 * Walt Whitman Jr. was born on may 31 1819 in Long Island
 * He published Leaves of the Grass in 1855.
 * He was the second son of Walt Whitman Sr. and Lousaia Whitman.
 * The Whitmans were a farming family
 * They lived in the west hills near the town of Huntington on long island
 * Walt was born in a two story house with wide planked floors, that his father had built
 * Slavery was legal until Walt was 8
 * As a young child Walt saw slaves in his grandmothers kitchen eating there dinner of milk and Indian pudding
 * At the age of 12 Walt began his working life.
 * From 1825-1830 Walt attended a public school.[[image:walt_whitman2.jpg width="210" height="192" align="right"]]
 * In 1830 Walt quit school and worked as a office boy.
 * In 1836 Walt became a teacher on Long Island.
 * From March 1846 to January 1848 he works for the //Daily Eagle//
 * In 1846, while he was a reporter, he wrote the famous “The Game of Ball is Glorious”.
 * In 1855, a volume of Whitman’s revolutionary work “The Leaves of Grass”, was delivered to Emerson’s home, Emerson was very impressed.
 * In February 1860, Whiteman got a letter from Charles Eldridge and William Thayer, saying that they wanted to publish his poems
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On April 12 1861 the civil war begins and his brother Geroge enlistes in the military.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On December 1862 Walts learns that his brother Geroge is wounded and goes to Virgina.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1863 Walt moves to Washington D.C. and visits military hospitals
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1887, Whitman gave his famous “Death of Abraham Lincoln” speech. (Walt Whitman)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1892, March 26 Whitman dies.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His father was a house builder.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He had eight brothers and sisters.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After the breakout of the Civil War, Whitman vowed to live a cleansed life.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What Whitman loved about New York City was the cosmos.

A picture of Walts house

=Poem Ideas= I Hear America Singing I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it whould be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
 * I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, || [[image:pic1_mrms_walt_whitman.jpg width="58" height="58"]] ||
 * Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it whould be blithe and strong, ||  ||
 * The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, || [[image:http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/kds03901/e-port/music-notes.jpg width="50" height="48"]] ||
 * The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, || [[image:pic4_mrms_walt_whitman.jpg width="50" height="40"]] ||
 * The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, ||  ||
 * The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, || [[image:http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/21621/wm/pd1372278.jpg width="59" height="40"]] ||
 * The woodcutter's song, the ploughboy's on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, || [[image:pic7_mrms_walt_whitman.jpg width="50" height="48"]] ||
 * The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, ||  ||
 * Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, || [[image:http://www.thehypertexts.com/images/Walt%20Whitman%20Tomb.JPG width="66" height="49"]] ||
 * The day what belongs to the day--at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, || [[image:pic10_mrms_walt_whitman.jpg width="58" height="56"]] ||
 * Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. ||  ||

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walt's tomb ====== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING

**//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) //**
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">But I wonder'd how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near--for I knew I could not; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">And broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">And brought it away--and I have placed it in sight in my room; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">(For I believe lately I think of little else than them:) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Yet it remains to me a curious token--it makes me think of manly love; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">I know very well I could not.

Walt Whitman (Public domain)

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