Walt Whitman

            Walt Whitman was a poet that was one of the most influential, and innovated poets. He was born around 30 years after the first president was inaugurated. He worked in a lawyer's office for his first job. He worked at a newspaper place after that job. Then he tied out being a teacher, even though he only had schooling until he was eleven. Thomas Jefferson was his brother, they became closer over time. He ended up being an owner of his own newspaper. While he was in New Orleans he wrote his first poem, it was called,  "Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight,". After that he wrote many other poems. He was a Realist and Romanticist. He wrote both kinds of poems.