A surname, most famously belonging to Walt Whitman, the 19th-century American poet known for revolutionary free verse.
English surname from 'white' and 'man', originally describing someone with white or pale features, or possibly someone who worked with white cloth or stone.
Walt Whitman basically invented modern American poetry—he threw out all the rules about rhyme and meter and just started singing about America in a voice nobody had heard before, starting with 'Song of Myself' in 1855. His influence shows up everywhere in modern music and spoken word.
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