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Animals Class 10 English Poem 7
by Walt Whitman
About the Poet
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is a major figure in early
American poetry. He broke the tradition of rhymed and
metrical poetry. He was famous for writing a revolutionary
new kind of poetry which was in free verse. The poem
‘animals’ is from his work ‘Song of Myself’ in Leaves of
grass.
