The life and times of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was a poet, journalist, essayist, and humanist altogether. He wrote some very depressing poems and some very happy poems, the sad poems are about when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and the poem he wrote about it was O Captain! My Captain! and the Captain is Abraham Lincoln. He lived around the Civil War time so he wrote many poems about war and how it will never change or like Beat! Beat! Drums! he wrote about how being on the battle field felt or sounded.