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Comments on the writer Subject: son of time, feels the pulse of the time. As a romanticist and transcendentalist, he broke the conventional poetic materials, no myth, no romance, no story of king and lords. He sings for self, common people, America, city life, nature, etc. Form: (Free verse) poetry without fixed beat or regular rhyme. Whitman is the first great American poet to use this form of poetry, he also used it more skillfully than any other poet. Emily Dickinson (1830 –1886) An American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her familys house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant嗜好 for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson‘s poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme (诗歌的)不工整韵，近似韵 as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. 美国浪漫主义诗歌：华尔特·惠特曼、艾米莉·狄金森 Walt Whitman (1819 –1892) an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist He was a part of the transition between transcendentalism(超验主义) and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of fre