Walt Whitman - Free Verse

Question 1

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Answer 1

• American poet
• developed his own style, free verse
• Leaves of Grass, first publication-wasn’t well liked-Ralph Waldo Emerson loved it
• wrote poetry about Abraham Lincoln
• the “Father of Free Verse”

Question 2

free verse

Answer 2

• no set pattern of meter
• no set pattern of rhyme
• no set pattern of line length
• no set pattern of stanzas