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I really like Walt Whitman and his poems. He has a new way of looking at the world. His poems are not all these deep, structured poems, but real art with realistic qualities. In a way he reminds me of Andy Warhol, who brought a new view to the people of his time and changed people in a different way of art. Walt Whitman is creative and critized for many things of his views, but he showed his time frame the truth. He was used life as his poem. He really captured many things that everyone can relate to. He captures love, our nation, jobs, and sex which are things that are in our everyday lifestyles. He more wrote poems that showed the future of America. America now is more open to new ideas and reality of life. He allowed us to enter in that world and really risked his reputation to show this people that world and the future.

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I like Walt Whitman and his poems sometimes. Most of his poems in Walt Whitman Selected Poems are really long, so the length of the poem is a turn off for me. I also don't like how he makes up his own words in his poems. I think that it is very creative but at the same time, to me, it makes the poem loose its meaning because I don't know what the word means. There is always the possiblity of looking up the word but in reality, I don't have the time to look up all the words that I don't know. Sometimes I do enjoy reading his poems because he does have different look on poetry compared to the other people of his time. Overall, it depends on the peom that I am reading. 1200323703

Although some of his topics don't exactly interest me, I really like the way Whitman writes. He doesn't rhyme, he doesn't use any regular way of making something flow, but somehow it flows really well. He also goes into great detail describing things, and even though the language is different than what we use, you can feel what he is talking about. Some topics are kind of awkward to read and understand, an obvious example being Sing the Body Electric. Also, sometimes it's hard to follow what he is talking about, and some poems are very long and hard to stay with. In class we stop every few lines, and I wish that we would keep going and then talk about the poem as a whole, or go back to talk about the details. Stopping all the time takes my mind out of the poem and what is being said. 1200326461

--- i think walt whitman is pretty weird, but a very intelligent man. he expresses his views in great detail and strongly believes in his ways. he doesnt really care what people think about his poems because he writes what he truly believes. the way he writes his poems is very interesting. he doesnt rhyme, but stilll has rhythm. he uses very creative words to describe whatever he is talking about. i think he is a very smart peron and really put his life into his poems.

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I have really enjoyed Walt Whitman's poems so far. I have yet to really read the long ones, but im sure those are great to. I agree with everything Epa said, Whitman is one of the most creative poems in our history. He stands up for what he believes in and even though he was criticized about his expressions of the male body, he stood up for himself and his beliefs, which is good for any person to do. I can tell by the way he wrote he didn't back down from anything, and was comfortable with discussing anything in his poems. Most of all I love the way he describes things, he puts a picture in your head, which for me helps when im reading a poem. It adds more excitement to the poem which is always good. I also agree with Br. Tom that he brought forth the new types of great poetry in our modern lifes such as Shell Silverstein whom we discussed in class. 1200349398

As I have briefly stated in some of my other posts, I enjoy how Walt Whitman is as a writer. Although we are/were not given much information on him or his life as a child, it isn't difficult to grasp an idea of the kind of person he is or the kind of family he was brought up in. In his writing, Whitman uses vivid descriptions, multiple literary devices and easy comprehendable context clues to portray his different messages within each poem to the reader. I find his poems easy to read and i feel that they can be easily understood. My favorite part of his writing is the way I feel like i am able to be inside his heart and his head. Because of the way Walt writes, I actually feel like i am next to him while he is writing his poem. I don't feel like i am reading something boring. He opens up my mind to a whole new world almost; in this case, I mean he makes me look at things from a whole new perspective. Before reading his work, I would have never thought of America as something as beautiful as he describes it to be. So, therefore, Whitman is a hit with me. =) 1200355496

I find Whitman's poems to be quite colorful, I mean this in a good way. what I mean by this is he tends to insert significant words in his poems that no one would ever thought of that ould be possible to create. It seems some of the longer poems are grasping readers' attention than the shorter ones. The longer poems have more detail and they don't jump from one place to another like the other poems. But the shorter ones seem to make a little bit more sense on account they go straight to the point. So I can't really decide which length of poems I like because they're both pretty good. I would say Whitman knows what he is doing and when he writes his poems he goes inside the reader's mind and explains what has been the issues in our society that is still going on today. Whitman will discuss anything that can be a problem all around the world. It's wierd to hear these similar explanations about our issues and the future from Whitman's point of view when he existed almost 200 years ago, it's amazing and this shows why he is one of the greatest poets who ever lived. 1200361244

As i have stated in my other posts, i really like Whitmans writings. He writes about something real, something you and me can relate to. He's not one of those poets who ramble on and on about love or flowers and such. He talks about life and america and happiness. Thats whats important in life. When i read his poems i was inspired to see that he was so deep and real. I thought we were going to be reading something long and boring. But, honestly , once i started getting into the poems i realized that Whitman is a great writer and should be recognized. I really like his word choices in these poems. His passion and sense for the world and the choices we make. I think his point of view shows the greatness in his character. 1200519792

I have found some of the things Whitman tends to discuss in poems that I'm not really that fond of. Although, his topics or main ideas in his writings may be disturbing or unapealling to others, I find the style of his writings very unique in such way where it makes his poetry very interesting to read. Unlike other poets, it seems like Whitman likes to make his poetry very long so the reader can have a better concept of the writing and what's being told in it. He goes into a large amount of detail about the things that lack importance or go unoticed. He does this to most likely show the significance or impact that something small could cause, and how it could have a pertinent value. I also think the poetry symbolizes the way Whitman sees life and what it has to offer. His expresses all this in his writings, and I like that.It seems as if Whitman's character is very spiritual, and through poetry you can see that very well. This is why I like Whitman.

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I'm not going to lie...Before reading Walkt Whitman's poems in class, i hadn't read to many things by him and had barely heard of him. I really like some of the poems he has written. He isn't afrais to stand up for what he believes in. I've noticed that he also writes some things that we only think about but don't say it out loud. I don't know how Whitman could write on and on about some of these poems. I find some of the topics he writes about to be so boring but he can write them in an exciting way, so that everyone can relate to them in some way. He writes about what makes him happy and the life that he has and i think that this is so cool that someone can stand up and say i don't care what anyone is thinks, all that matters is what i think!1201127119ape2

In the beginning when we read our first poem from Walt Whitman I didnt think to much about him. Then as time went on, and his unique ways of writing displayed themselves through his many poems, it dawned on me that he was a pretty cool guy, and a very good poet. I really liked the way that he loves basically life, and everything in it. In allmost everyone of his poems he mentions at least one thing about earth. And it amazes me how he does that. And I also agree that some of his poems and other literature arent the most exciting things to read about, but Walt Whitman is so intellegent that he discovers ways to make them exciting in some ways. And that what sets him apart from other poets of his time. 1201181823