Free verse in Walt Whitman's poems

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Walt Whitman was a man with the deep desire to represent the poetry of America. The love he had for his country transcended the horrors surrounding the Civil War. He remained loyal to his country and became a voice for both Union and Confederate soldiers. Whitman went through periods of transformation as a man and poet. From his views on slavery to how he wrote poetry, Whitman changed over the course of a very short time. This change allowed him to be one of the most well-known poets in today’s society and also to be known as America’s Poet, his most desired title. His selfless acts of tending to the wounded soldiers in Washington D.C. proved that he truly had the desire to make a difference even though he did not volunteer to physically fight for the Union. The unconventional form of his poetry and the way in which he saw the world were incredibly significant to his success as a poet, and although he was not accepted right away, he earned the title of being America’s Poet with the chronicling of his experiences on the warfront and in Army hospitals. Whitman will always radiate throughout history with his words on President Lincoln and the voice he gave countless soldiers who died in the war. Walt Whitman's achievement as a poet and prophet is truly monumental. He exercised a deep influence on his immediate successors in American letters, and even on modern poets, although he himself was a highly individualistic poet. As a symbolist, his influence was felt in Europe, where he was considered the greatest poet America had yet produced. His high style and elevated expression found echoes in Emily Dickinson, Hart Crane, Marianne Moore, and others. Whitman as a stylist is the culmination of the sublime tradition in America, and even Allen Ginsberg, so different from Whitman in so many respects, follows the Whitman tradition of using invocative language. Whitman, though a man of his age, an essentially nineteenth-century poet, exercised a profound influence on twentieth-century poets and modern poetry in the use of language, in the processes of symbol and image-making, in exercising great freedom in meter and form, and in cultivating the individualistic mode. In many ways Whitman is modern because he is prophetic; he is a poet not only of America but of the whole of mankind. He has achieved the Olympian stature and the rare distinction of a world poet.
In our work we analyzed features of Walt Whitman's style. We tried to study his literary techniques and also showed philosophical basics of his works.
We think that we have done all our tasks rather well. We achieved a deep analyze of some of his works and viewed the poetical techniques of Walt Whitman and the uniqueness of his style.
Even if the clouds are still there, we know that the stars are immortal, we know that sooner or later they will shine out again, it’s just a matter of time, the daughter is taught to remain patient and endure the struggle of watching how the dark clouds are devouring the sky until the stars will radiate their lights again. We can also predict that the stars will shine again because of the “Pleiades”, the narrator named them because he refers at them not as an individuality but as a whole star cluster that will unite eventually.
We may also think that the light of the stars enlightens the narrator, it is connected to his mind which can be now in a state of lack of inspiration or that things don’t go well in his life but at the end everything shall be good. The whole poem is related to the human being and the nature represented as the universe, the narrator has a philosophical connection with the universe, he is studying the entire cosmos revealing its beauty through the impressive light of the stars.