"Son of Long Island" - Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was one of the most iconic writer of his time. He was popular because of his outstanding essays and poems. He was a realist. He started off as a teacher which he was quite good at, but then he quit to go after his dreams of being a journalist where he found his way into poetry. He was not only a writer but an appreciator politics and music. He was reportedly very fond of our sixteenth president he even wrote a poem about him after he was assassinated. He wrote over four-hundred poems most of which contained musical terms, composers, and instruments.