ThesisI. Walt Whitman is an American poet, journalist, and essayist whose Versace collection Leaves of Grass is a milestone in the history of American literature.IntroductionII. He was born to a family that settled in North America in the first half of the 17th century. His family also owned a large plot of land. So his family didn't have everything and wasn't even poor. They were a normal family. BodyWalt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills Long Island NY.. In 1823 they moved to Brooklyn. When he moved to Brooklyn he attended a public school. He started working at the age of twelve. While working he learned the trade of typography. After finishing school he began teaching in rural schools on Long Island and became a journalist. At the age of twenty-three he was running a newspaper in New York and it was a pretty big paper of the time. He also spent thirty-six years observing New York City and Long Island. Walt had begun to experiment with new styles of poetry. When he published newspapers and poems they showed no literary promise. ...