Walt Whitman, n.Definitions

Walt Whitman is as unacquainted with art as a hog with mathematics.

Walt Whitman is half song thrush, half alligator.

Walt Whitman is a post-mortem poet, with the private soul leaking out of him all the time. All his privacy leaking out in a sort of dribble, oozing into the universe.

Walt Whitman is a man who is not only eager to talk about himself, but reluctant to have the conversation stray from the subject for too long.

Walt Whitman is like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.

Walt Whitman is a writer who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Walt Whitman is guilty of misleadingly likening style to a curtain, thus confusing it with decoration or with something that could be pulled back to reveal the ‘matter’.