View Walt Whitman Best Poems Pictures. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous walt whitman poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. The poem, which was initially titled 'poem of walt whitman, an american,' also serves as a biography of whitman.
Walt whitman was a groundbreaking american poet, best known for poems such as 'song of myself' and 'i sing the body electric'.
This poem underscores whitman's basic attitude toward america, which is part of his ideal of human life. Show all albums by walt whitman. Walt whitman was born in west, hills, long island, new york. Below you'll find a variety of shorter poems by walt whitman.