In class we experimented with writing "Whitman imitations"--poems using the style of Whitman that contained our own imagery. Check out the student blogs to see some fun and creative responses in poetry. Any number of contemporary poets have paid homage to Whitman, including Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, and Charles Wright. Allen Ginsberg looks to Whitman as his poetic forbear in his famous poem Howl, and more playfully features Whitman and Whitman's style in "A Supermarket in California."
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