Journal 44: Barbaric Yawp

Whitman's style is greatly different from that of previous writers and poets we read. He's so free and it seems to me that he wrote his poems almost nonchalantly. He seems to write without a care in the world and without caring wither people would like it or not. The previous writers followed rules and regulations especially the poets. The poets had rhyme schemes they follow one that will never appear in one of Whitman's free verse poems. That him self a barbaric when compared with the Romantic poets. He follows no rule or regulations just like how a barbarian lives in the wild and only follows what is natural when the rules and regulation turn the barbarian into civilized human beings. Whitman's poems are barbaric yawps because they have no set why of writing and like a barbaric he writes freely and unconcerned of the opinions of others. He write free when the "civilized" poets write with strict rules and doesn't try free verse or the so called barbaric yawp.