Walt Whitman employed brand-new means in his poetry. Briefly discuss the features of his poems according to his poetic style and language.
【正确答案】：Whitman's poetic style is marked by the use of the poetic“I." Speaking in the voice of“T”, Whitman becomes all those people in his poems, and yet still remains“Walt Whitman", hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification.
Whitman is also radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is "free verse", that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. By means of“free verse", he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play. As a poet, Whitman can be conversational and casual, in the fluid, expansive, and unstructured style of talking, like one of the ordinary men. However, there is a strong sense of the poems being rhythmical Rather than giving a description of those concrete things, Whitman catalogues them. Reading his poems, we feel the rhythm of Whitman's thought and cadences of his feeling. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the lines contribute to the musicality of his poems. Contrary to the rhetoric of traditional poetry, Whitman's is relatively simple and even rather crude. One of the most often-used methods in Whitman's poems is to make colors and images fleet past the mind's eye of the reader. Another characteristic in Whitman's language is his strong tendency to use oral English. Whitman's vocabulary is amazing.
