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says that everyone should love West because of all beautiful places which are there. His last words in that poem is that he will always have those places in his heart. In the poem One s Self I Sing , he talks about how being by himself has it s pluses and minuses. He says word democratic in a different language, to show how it devides in two words separate person . He also says that some people can t live without talking to other people, but folks who live separate can do it. In the other poem named As I Ponder d in Silence , Walt Whitman talks about the thoughts he gets when there s complete silence around his house. In his mind he returns to his poems. Reads them in his mind. Few moments later, he thinks about beauty, age and power. He also thinks about God, wars and soldiers

on those wars. In almost all of those four poems, he talks of love to either American people or his country. Walt Whitman was one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. He lived most of his life in New York State, never traveled in the young age farther than Mississippi River. After the stroke he suffered he went down to live in Camden, NJ, where he lived the rest of his life. During his life he published only one book with poems, which he changed every time he felt like it needed that. That book had more than 100 poems in it. He died as a poet, which successfully introduced new kind of poetry.