Walt Whitman was a journalist and a poet.Who was most influential in the 19th centery.He was born in Long Island on may 31,1819. His childhood was not a joyful one.His family kept on moving from one place to another because of the bad economic conditions.He started working at the age of eleven and then after that he started working other jobs.Whitman claimed poems to be his first love and regardless of the job he was in he continued to write his poetries.He kept on writing poems until they were published.He view everything in many and different ways. Whitman attended the newly founded Brooklyn public schools for six years, sharing his classes with students of different ages and they were all most poor since children from wealthy families attended private schools. In Whitman’s school, all the students were in the same room, except African Americans who had to attend a separate class on the top floor.most of Whitman’s meaningful education came outside of school when he visited museums went to libraries and attended lectures. The poet died on March 26, 1892 The cause of death was miliary tuberculosis.The autopsy revealed that one lung had completely collapsed and the other was working only at one-eighth capacity. Walt Whitman did and wrote many things he was best known for his realist poetry and political works during the civil war.He wrote poems that showed how he connected to the community.For example two of his best poems were “Manahatta” and “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”.Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem that not only exposes the differences within the people and the geography of the nation. expressing his experience with the Civil War as well as the industrial revolution of the United States, Whitman threads together the past and the future showing equality not only within time and distance but in its attitude and thought. Whitman plays with the relationship between difference and equality. He shows how you can view something beyond on what it is.Walt Whitman informs me on how I see my relationship to the city.In his poem “Mannahatta” he shows how he has a passion on what he writes about like showing the relationship he had for his community.Just the way I can relate to his way of view the city that he has explained with many details.Hes describing his city,which he shows that he cares a lot for.He shows that he loves the city as much as everyone should.In his writing he makes sure he shows the love and passion he has for the topic he is writing about.Whitman shows how someone can have a powerful relationship to there community. Walt Whitman was a very outgoing man.Who view everything very differently than any other person would view it as.Walt Whitman was both a major poet and an outstanding personality in the history of American literature. He show many things.he achieved great things.And was an outstanding person.Walt Whitman showed me how you can have a strong relationship with your community if you view it in many and different ways.