Walt Whitman

An American author.

Leaves of Grass

poetry collection, including “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”, “O Captain My Captain”

“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d”

about Abraham Lincoln’s death

“Song of Myself

“a uniform hieroglyphic” grass, “barbaric yawp”, “look for me under your bootsoles”, “origin of all poems”, reading it is “good health”

Drum-Taps

Democratic Vistas

alarmed at superficial US

Specimen Days & Collect

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”

Song of the Open Road

“Beat, Beat Drums!”

“O Captain! My Captain!”

about Abraham Lincoln’s death. uses naval metaphors for the Civil War, with Lincoln as captain of the Union ship