I don't mean for this stuff to be completely random, it just happens that way.

The title.

Also, I'm probably the only one who thinks it's funny that the title has nothing to do with the context. Or anything, for that matter. At least on my other blog, I post relevant things.

Also, rest assured there WILL be something Starkid-related on here. Eventually. However, opportunity hasn't knocked yet, so I'll just patiently wait instead of making the awkward reference that even Starkids find unfunny.

And now, for something completely unrelated. A man with three buttocks.

The subject for this post is a famous poet of the 19th Century named Walt Whitman, who was known for his poetic poetry (of course) and quite frankly, his writing in general. He was (as mentioned before) a well-renowned poet and wrote many books consisting of his poems, which alone made a large impact on the tiny literary world that was America's at the time. Whitman was truly an innovation in his work, and was admired by other writers similar to he. Raised in the Brooklyn area of New York, Whitman we was heavily influenced by the environments in which had found himself, most notably the Brooklyn ferries that passed through the area from time to time, which in itself became the subject of one of his more famous works. Though Whitman was talented, his career as a writer did not particularly advance until his first job at the Long Island Patriot. After that, writing had been of interest to him, yet he did not fully start his literary career until after he gave up being a schoolteacher, though the long and miserable years had certainly inspired him partially for some of his works. Whitman died on March 26th, 1892 due to poor health, after a lengthy and successful career as a poet and writer of literature.

Whitman's literature was heavily influenced by (although this was more simply his philosophy) Quaker beliefs, as well as the Romantic novelists who preceded him and Shakespeare. The samples of his poetry read in class were most definitely Romantic because he was not only influenced by other Romantic authors, but his writing itself showed signs of Romanticism, specifically some of them referring to the human soul, and the reader himself being put as the center focus of the writer's attention. This is a glaringly obvious sign that the literary work has been somehow influenced by Romantic works, since this trait is most known for in this particular type of literature.  Scratch that, he's a realist.

The next few posts will display a couple of Whitman's works, followed by an analysis of each.