Walter Whitman was an extremely important American poet. The father of free verse, as he is often called, continues to influence many writers, poets, and lovers of literature to this day.
Walter Whitman presented humanistic characteristics in his works, always representing the link between transcendental and realism in literature. His works were extremely controversial, but he was able to touch deep into the readers' soul and activate they critical senses, so his poems were related to the readers.
