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1819年5月31日,惠特曼出生在纽约长岛的一个农庄中,他只接受了五年普通教育。他11岁就开始自谋生路,当过小职员,到报社当过记者,也当过印刷工人、乡村学校教师、报纸编辑和地方党报撰稿人。也许是他经历的太多,他萌生了创作诗歌来记录这十多年的感受。1855年,《草叶集》问世了。他的一生虽只创作过这一部诗集,但这部诗集却在美国文坛乃至世界文坛上留下来浓墨重彩的一笔,这本诗集也使他成为美国现代诗和现代文学的开山鼻祖。惠特曼借着草叶普通但却难得的品质,选择了“草叶”这个简单却复杂的意象作为诗集的总名。诗人选取
On May 31, 1819, Whitman was born in a farmstead on Long Island, New York, where he received only five years of general education. He started his career at the age of 11, worked as a clerk, worked as a newspaper reporter, also worked as a printer, village school teacher, newspaper editor and local party newspaper contributor. Perhaps he had experienced too much, he initiated the creation of poetry to record the feelings of more than a decade. In 1855, “grass leaves set” came out. Though his poetry collection has only been written in his life, his poetry collection has remained in the literary world of the American literary world and even the world. This poem has also made him the originator of modern American poetry and modern literature. Whitman chose the simple but complex image of “grass leaves” as the general name of a collection of poems, using the ordinary but rare quality of grass. Poet selection