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'''Walt Whitman''' was an awful [[User:Ed Poor|child molester]] who was born in ancient [[Hong Kong]]. He is over 3000 years old and remembers the names of all the forgotten [[God]]s.

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Walt Whitman is 90 stories tall, and his adventures are legendary. With his blue ox, [[Emily Dickinson]], Walt Whitman traveled across young [[America]] and helped the nation grow into the angry powerhouse it is today. He dropped his mighty [[axe]], forming the [[Grand Canyon]]; the [[apple]] cores he would spit from his mighty mouth planted apple trees all across the country; and the stomp of his mighty [[boot]] caused the [[stock market]] to crash. He and his friend, [[Huck Finn]], traveled down the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] and freed the [[slavery|slaves]]. Walt Whitman believed that [[fire drill|the only good Chinaman was a dead Chinaman]], so he went to [[Tiananmen Square]] and gave them all [[candy]]. Except instead of [[candy]] he [[massacre|killed them]].

'''Walt Whitman''' (1819-1892) was an America poet and school teacher. Born in Huntington, on [[New York]]'s [[Long Island]], and raised in [[Brooklyn]], he received little formal education.

Walt Whitman might seem like a real cool guy, but in reality he's a whiny-ass [[cat|pussy]]. His [[Livejournal]], which he doesn't think anyone knows about, is full of whiny [[goth]] [[poetry]]. His Current [[Mood]] is always "[[Apathy|Apathetic]]" and his music is always some obscure punk band that no one has ever heard of. Some people who pretended to be his friends so they could get access to his "friends only" posts grabbed some of the poetry and made a [[book]] from them, and called it "[[Ode]] to [[Sex with animals|Faggotry]]." When they found out other [[goth]] kids would actually read it, they changed the name to "[[Beauty|Leaves]] of [[Grass]]" and it sold like [[cat|gothcakes]]. Walt Whitman to this day doesn't know they're selling his [[poem]]s and making a [[fortune]] off him. They still don't invite him to any [[party|parties]] though, because [[User:Conservative|no one likes him]].

His poetry usually eschews traditional rhymes, meters and themes in favor of free verse, reflecting the themes of democratic egalitarianism and personal liberty that permeated his verse. The first edition of his major work, ''Leaves of Grass'', was originally self-published in 1855. One of the first to receive a copy of ''Leaves of Grass'' was the American intellectual and essayist [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], who praised the book as "most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed".<ref>http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/whitman.html</ref> Later Emerson would become critical of Whitman's mode of expressing sexuality, a criticism shared by others who perceived amoral and homoerotic aspects in his writings.  Only in later years did his powerful writing style and American themes win Whitman the admiration of the literary community. Whitman spent his later years working as a nurse in hospitals during the Civil War caring for the wounded. There are still extant many letters from soldiers and their families expressing deep thanks and love for Whitman's benevolence at this time.  [[Henry James]] attempted to emulate Whitman by visiting hospitals during WWI but his biographies have noted that despite his sincerity he was not able to connect as deeply as Whitman was.

Walt Whitman [[death|died]] a [[User:Karajou|lonely man]] in [[Walt Disney Land]]. He was on the [[gondola]] ride, and he fell out because he wasn't fastened properly to the [[restraint]]. Thanks to his dumb ass, now none of us can ride it anymore. Thanks a lot, Walt Whitman.

Whitman died and was buried in [[Camden]], [[New Jersey]].

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