Walt Whitman was a poet dated back as early as the 1800’s. In fact, on May 31st 1819, he was born in a big family of nine children, and a pair of parents. According to poets.org in their article titled “Walt Whitman“, Whitman was “the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor.” (par. 1) So luckily for him, he was always older than all but one of his siblings. He and his family lived in Brooklyn and Long Islands between the 1820’s and 1830’s. According to bio in their article titled “Walt Whitman Biography” “At 11, Walt Whitman was taken out of school by his father to help out with household income” (par. 4) In today’s day and age, it would be almost absurd to remove your child from elementary school to help the family
