Poetry has always been thought of as an expression of oneself. Walt Whitman certainly seems to believe in that idea. Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York. Whitman had a rather meager amount of formal education before he turned to the printing trade. He worked as a teacher and also a printer and reporter for some very well-known establishments including New World and the Democratic Review. Later, he turned to poetry as …showed first 75 words of 1770 total…

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