Many tried to put their feelings into words. Walt Whitman wrote several poems of mourning.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

If you read Walt Whitman, you will see much of the same ethos So, Ginsberg is not the first to do this in the American tradition, for sure, but it's a very important part of what the Beats revive.

如果你读过沃尔特惠特曼，你会发现类似的思潮,所以金斯堡肯定不是第一个在美国传统上这么做的，但它是使垮掉的一代复兴的重要部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In almost every poem Walt Whitman wrote he seems to be fashioning himself, if not the whole of this American people, which sometimes he did call an American race, as a new Adam.

在沃尔特·惠特曼所写的的几乎每首诗中,他似乎都是在标榜自己,如果不是标榜美国人民的话,但他确实有时将美利坚民族,称为一个新的亚当

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Among his subjects were Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

And as Walt Whitman wrote in poem after poem, and other poets did as well, and politicians said over and over and over and over America, and this United States, this nation formed there would be the beginning of a new man, a new start for humankind.

对此沃尔特·惠特曼和其他诗人,写下了众多的诗篇,政治家们也对此喋喋不休,这片土地上,在美利坚合众国,人们可以获得新生,这也是,人类的新起点

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

We leave you now with more words from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

In the words of poet Walt Whitman: "It is for the interest of mankind that America's power and territory should be extended -- the farther,the better."

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One of Walt Whitman's most beautiful poems in honor of Lincoln is called, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. " Here is part of that poem.

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Poet Walt Whitman gave this description: "I saw Mr.Lincoln, dressed all in black.

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To Walt Whitman, democracy was more than a political system or idea.

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Today we tell about Walt Whitman, one of America's greatest poets.

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Walt Whitman hated slavery because he believed all people are equal.

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Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City.

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Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy.

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In eighteen seventy-three, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

But dying is a different way, A kind behind the door -- Some historians wish that Emily Dickinson's poems had reached the best American writers of her day: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau or Walt Whitman.

VOA: special.2010.07.18