Drum Taps

Considered the great poet of the American Revolution – or even the greatest poet in all of American literature – New Yorker Walt Whitman (1819-1892) stood out for his free verse style, without metrical restrictions, but also with a way of thinking that functioned in this way: without limits or rules.
Of him, Fernando Pessoa wrote: "He introduced a new subjectivity into poetic conception and made his poetry a hymn to life."
Whitman was, in the true and just sense of the term, a visionary. He celebrated humanity and nature, encouraging through his words the noblest ideals of communion, sharing, and democratic participation in the United States of America.
If he were alive, perhaps Walt Whitman would write things similar to those of yesteryear, so immutable do the feelings he described seem, so evident was, for the author, the delicacy of the human condition, of love, of sex, of life in communion in cities, and of the difficult paths we continue to travel together.