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I was wondering what America was actually like during the time Whitman wrote “I hear america singing” because his poem is very positive, describing the workers as happy to be working labor intensive jobs. There are other perspectives that contradict this one at the time, like Langston Hughes, an African American poet.

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Walt Whitman wrote very different poetry than other American poets at the time. He was one of the founders of free verse poetry.