I Hear America Singing英文诗歌鉴赏.pptVIP

American poet, essayist ,journalist, and humanist The father of free verse Main article: Leaves of Grass I Hear America Singing ——Walt Whitman Americas first poet of democracy （18195－1892） Whitman wrote in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Leaves of Grass A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification. The free in free verse refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ familiar poetic devices such