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    Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the greatest 19th century authors whose works paid homage to the aspirations of man during the industrialization era and focused heavily on democracy. To broaden the scope of his writing, he incorporated foreign words and slang terms to personify an inclusive democratic voice. Whitman believed democracy should influence all aspects of life, not just politics, by affecting how people speak, think, work, battle, and create art. He rejected traditional poetic structures in favor of a plain style using conversational slang and local dialects to depict common speech and demonstrate limitless freedom across traditional power and class divides. Through original literary pursuits, Whitman was able to uphold his democratic beliefs in his innovative form

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    Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the greatest 19th century authors whose works paid homage to the aspirations of man during the industrialization era and focused heavily on democracy. To broaden the scope of his writing, he incorporated foreign words and slang terms to personify an inclusive democratic voice. Whitman believed democracy should influence all aspects of life, not just politics, by affecting how people speak, think, work, battle, and create art. He rejected traditional poetic structures in favor of a plain style using conversational slang and local dialects to depict common speech and demonstrate limitless freedom across traditional power and class divides. Through original literary pursuits, Whitman was able to uphold his democratic beliefs in his innovative form

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    Exploration on Whitman’s Democracy through Literature

    Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the greatest authors in the 19th century. His works

    pay homage to the aspirations of man during the industrialization era and are heavily oriented on

    democracy. To broaden the scope of his writing, he freely employed slang and terms from other

    languages to personify a democratic voice who responds in an inclusive manner.

    Whitman's vocabulary and diction were so distinctive that he incorporated foreign words

    into his works and created new terminology. His experimentation with the use of these foreign

    concepts alongside his use of the English language as a means of conveying a magnificent

    message of democracy included his assurance in rejecting meter, rhyme, and conventional poetic

    diction in his prose poetry. In his opinion, all people are created equal, including men and

    women, and all occupations are noble.

    How people actually speak was taken into account in his writings, which led to a low

    register diction and a grammar that shunned hierarchical devices like subordinate clauses.

    Whitman thought that the poet would be better able to depict the common speech and

    comprehension patterns required for a functioning democratic public realm using the plain style.

    He believes that authors who use conversational slang and local dialects demonstrate a

    dedication to limitless freedom by bridging traditional lines of power and class because he

    viewed democracy as a way of life, not merely a political system. He believed that democracy
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    should affect all aspects of life, not just politics, by influencing the way we speak, think, work,

    battle, and even create art.

    Whitman had a generally upbeat outlook on the typical person and thought that

    democratic democracy, with all of its possibilities, would eventually work itself out and promote

    personal happiness. Through the pursuit of original and symbolic literary studies, he was able to

    uphold his beliefs in his works and develop a novel form of poetry.

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