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How does Whitman set himself up as The American poet
Whitman is a poet who set himself to resolutely deal with the vast developments of the 19th century, all teeming life and work of the Americas and of the wider world still, under aspects startlingly different in their scope and of tremendous significance to anything the world has known before.
In order to set himself up as The American Poet Whitman needed to base all of his poems on America and praising the country in as many ways as possible. Whitman tries to show how great America is by reflecting the lives of Americans and the strong spirit of patriotism that they share.
Whitmans poetry is clearly American because the subject of all his poems is the greatness of America and the American people. ... The first line of the poem says I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear , the use of the word carols symbolises the strong sense of Christian religion in this poem and how it is celebrating the birth of the American nation. ...
Because this poem is a celebratory poem, Whitman has also made it a Romantic poem. Whitman was a very strongly romantic poet and all of his poems share similar styles and use of language to that of other romantics.
Approximate Word count = 976
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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