Transcendental Writing Walt Whitman was a Transcendentalist that commonly focused on individualism in his writings. He focused on each character he wrote about and described their life through jobs in America. An example of a profession Whitman describes is, “The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,” (Whitman). This imagery helps the reader visualize Whitman’s goals in life, which were to have everyone working together to form a strong country. He also believed in the American dream and wrote about his goal for everyone to live peacefully together. “The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs,” (Whitman). We can imagine everyone in America coming together and agreeing over a common topic: music. Whitman chose a broad topic because he wanted to …show more content…
He supported the idea of expressing spiritual and real thoughts through poetry. His writing helped create different methods to understand a new lifestyle that was becoming popular in America. At the age of seventeen he guided young minds while teaching, which impacted the beliefs of many students (Walt Whitman Revolutionised American Poetry). This changed our country because future generations would grow up understanding a revolutionary way of living that helped express individuality. Whitman also influenced people through his writings when he became a journalist. In 1855, he published a famous book called Leaves of Grass which included many stories and poems he had written over the years (Walt Whitman Revolutionised American Poetry). This specifically affected other poets by opening up a new way of literature to them. Opportunities were given by this book to many people besides writers because of the powerful movements Whitman spoke of. The idea of equality was put into place by Transcendentalists such as Walt