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Walt Whitman - Born in NY in 1819/Father is liberal/Grew up with Quakers/Education ended at 11/Worked as an apprentice printer/worked as a newspaper editor and went to New Orleans, he was fascinated languages and dialects, first contact with wounded soldiers (war with Mexico)/he saw the slaves being sold, and he wrote poem about them called “I Sing the Body Electric”/saw Emerson lecture, harmony between man and nature, individualism and civil rights./Whitman rebelled against 1840’s conventional poetry/wasn’t a conformist with white men/appealed to slaves and men equally/his works include strength of America(has a notebook with his observations), Leaves of Grass is a collection of 12 unnamed poems./In Civil War his brother enlisted and injured/visited and tended to wounded soldiers/Lincoln was elected, and he believed in government (“Oh Captain! My Captain!” is about Lincoln’s death.)/Whitman choose deliberately to be a rebel/ main character in leaves of grass is “I”/List poem is a list of people, places, and things that share a common denominator/ Langsten Hughes - American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer/1902-1967/Harlem Renaissance-blacks in Harlem stopped writing like whites, created black art and music/uplifted his people, the working class and blacks, denounced racial stereotypes/ Metaphor-Similes – compare of 2 unlike things/figure of speech/

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