A Comparative Study on the Poetic Works of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass, Poetic Works, Robert Frost, Walt WhitmanAbstract
In this paper, I present about a comparative study on the poetic works of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. The poet was born in a small village in 1819 (Meltzer, 2002). He has spent his childhood on the farm and later had to move to Brooklyn. Walt Whitman left his school to become a student of a printer and started publishing his poems. His life was not easy because he had to work at different jobs at the same time. The author’s family was extremely patriotic, and the influence of his father can be seen in his poems. What is interesting is that he wrote only one collection of poems during his whole life. Leaves of Grass is unique because all the editions are different. The author was making small changes to it in an attempt to make it perfect.
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