A topic within Poetry, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Walt Whitman
Abandons metre and rhyme for long, cataloguing, breath-length lines, arguing that American democratic experience demanded a new poetic form rather than inherited English convention.
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Argues that a poem's form should grow organically from its meaning, since it is 'not metres, but metre-making argument that makes a poem' — a call for a new American poetics that Whitman later credited with prompting Leaves of Grass.
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