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I am Holden

Son of disappointed parents Brother of Phoebe, D.B, and Allie. Who needs inspiration, direction, focus Who loves his hunting cap, his brothers books, and little sister Who sees the real person behind every fake smile, Who hates phonies, school, being told what to think or do Who fears the future, school, failure Who dreams of his brother Allie, Jane, and the past Who wonders how why people act fact, where the ducks go in the winter, what the point of school is Resident of the bustling, crowded, full of lies New York

Caulfield

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Walt Whitman Renaissance Poet Biographical information  -    Born in New York in 1819  -    Influences: **Father** was liberal; farmers workers and tradesmen, grew up around **Quakers**  -    Formal education ended at 11  -    Worked as apprentice for printer  -    Worked as an Editor for a paper in New Orleans, first time ever out of the New York area. He was fascinated with the other languages, also the first time he had ever seen a wounded soldier. Saw slaves being sold at auction, wrote “I Sing the Body Electric”.  -    Attended lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harmony between Nature and Man, Individualism, Non-conformity)  -    Journalist, had been concerned with the white working men  -    Began to change attitude about slavery  -    Blacks become an important part of his poetry  -    Began educating himself (Deliberately wrote against those he had formally imitated)  -    Focused on slavery  -    Strength of America (Not leaders, but in hardworking, patriotic citizens, carried a notebook where he wrote observations)  -    Self published **__Leaves of Grass__**  -    12 unnamed poems Civil War  -    Brother enlisted and was injured <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Whitman visited and tended to wounded soldiers <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Lincoln was elected (stance on slavery, encounters at hospital) <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Lincoln’s death- “Oh Captain! My Captain!” (poem) Poetry <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Deliberately set out to be a rebel <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Uniquely American -- Leaders: Abraham Lincoln <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Working Men <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Civil War Whitman’s “I” <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    Main Character in **__Leaves of Grass__** <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    People of America <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    America itself List Poem <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri"> -    A poem comprised of a list of persons, places, things, or abstract ideas which share a common denominator Why is Walt Whitman a rebel in poetry? Poetry that was artificial and written for a purpose. What did he rebel against? What did he begin? Factors that led to his poetry? Slavery, wounded soldiers

1)  American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer  2)   Harlem renaissance a)  Black writers, artists, musicians  b)   Stopped imitating styles of Europeans and white Americans c)  Celebrated black Americans  3)   Major concerns a)  Uplifting of “his people”  b)   Insights into lives of working class Blacks i)  Struggles  ii)   Joy iii)  Laughter  iv)   Music c)  Denounce racial stereotypes  d)   Protest social conditions
 * Langston Hughes -Let America be America Again**