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Major Works Leaves of Grass 草叶集1855 Drum-Taps 桴鼓集1865 Democratic Vistas 民主远景1871 Song of Myself 自我之歌 I Sit and Look Out 坐观世间 O Captain, My Captain! 船长，我的船长 When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 最近紫丁香在庭院里开放的时候 I hear America Singing 我听见美国在歌唱 Grass---the most common thing with the greatest vitality, as a symbol of the rising American With new poetic form of free verse and oral language, Leaves of Grass has become a landmark in American literary history, which represents the poet, the people, and the nation in the 19th century. Walt Whitman’s Contribution He believes the American poets would create both new forms and new subjects matter for poetry. In terms of poetic form, he advocated a completely new and completely American form of expression----free verse. In terms of contents, most of his poems are about man and nature, especially common people and ordinary Americans. He wanted his poetry to be for the common people “I Hear America Singing” 《我听见美利坚在歌唱》 an optimistic and passionate celebration and admiration of the new America with its people and its spirit. Appreciation of I Hear America Singing Diction( the choice and use of words in literature) Nouns such as: mechanics, mason, work, deckhand, shoemaker, hatter, woodcutter, ploughboy, and mother. images of the working class society Verbs: measure, make, singing, sit, stand, sewing, washing a moving pictures of people performing their different jobs Main idea: This poem is shortest among Whitman’s poems. It presents the reader a picture of the modern Americans: people from all walks of life are singing for their cheerful and creative work and their dream through out American. Themes: an eulogy to the thriving American nation, the laboring people; the poet’s optimistic attitude toward the world and life. Tone: Proud, cheerful, optimistic Language：Simple and even rather crude; Have a tendency to oral English The wood-cutter’s son