Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29.

   Walt Whitman, born in New York, in 1819, was one of America’s unusual literary figures. As an individualist, he rambled through the countryside seeing people and places, and making them his own. His experiences in earning a living were (25) at times he was a printer, a teacher, a carpenter, a nurse and a newspaper editor. He was a (26) man, open and accepting. He gave freely of his time by caring for the wounded during the Civil War.

   Though he lived in the city, he often spent time in the country, developing his strong (27) of nature, which carried through out his poems. In 1855 he collected the verses he had written, and published them in one thin volume, “Leaves of Grass”, a book (28) he revised and rewrote all the rest of his life. The book was ridiculed by some poets and generally ignored by others, probably because his verse forms were not traditional. He had felt that it was necessary to achieve a new poetic form in order to communicate his views. His reputation didn’t grow until after his death, and it reached a high point in the 1920s. (29) then, Whitman’s style has greatly influenced modern poets.

 

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