215 years ago today, May 31, 1810 (April 29, 1810 in the lunar calendar), the American poet Whitman was born. On May 31, 1810, Walter Whitman was born into a peasant family on Long Island, New York, USA. Due to his family's financial constraints, he only attended primary school for a few years and dropped out of school at the age of 11. Whitman has worked as a handyman, apprentice, typesetter, rural elementary school teacher, etc. Whitman began writing literature in 1839, writing short poems and participating in local political activities. In 1842 he served as editor of the New York Dawn newspaper. In early 1846, he served as editor of the Brocklin Daily Eagle, and was dismissed in January 1848 for publishing anti-slavery articles in the newspaper. Later, he served as editor-in-chief of the Free People newspaper, but eventually left the press in 1840 due to political disagreements. Starting in 1850, Whitman engaged in manual labor, as a carpenter and architect, and launched his vigorous poetry creation activities. During the Civil War, the poet voluntarily went to Parkway Hospital in New York to take care of him, and later served in the military hospital in Washington. In 1873, Whitman unfortunately suffered from hemiplegia and moved to Camden, New Jersey to recuperate. He died of serious illness in 1892. Whitman's first collection of poems was "Leaves of Grass". When it was published in New York in 1855, there were only 94 items, including 12 poems. By the time it was published in 1882, the number had increased to 372 poems; when the American Civil War broke out in 1861, during this period, he wrote a "Special Collection for Drum" that truly recorded the revolutionary war; after President Lincoln was assassinated, he wrote "O Captain!", a sad expression of the American people's grief over Lincoln's assassination. My Captain "," Today's Military Camp is Quiet "and other poems; In the famous poem "The Mysterious Trumpeter", he optimistically depicts the free world of the future. Whitman is a famous American democratic poet. He praises democracy and freedom, embodying the American people's desire for democracy. He praises the people's creative labor. His poems give people a positive and energetic spirit. Whitman's name has long been familiar to the China people. During the May Fourth Movement period, poet Guo Moruo praised Whitman as a literary and artistic revolutionary in the famous poem "Ode to the Bandits".