Innovation

In Whitman´s 1-10 poems I noticed that his style could have been an inovation to poetry. He created a new style which was not the typical Iambic Pentameter form, rather it included a prose like form. He also included some topics that might not been as common in that time. In poem 3 when he writes:
"Out of the dimness opposite equals advance—always substance and increase, always sex;
Always a knit of identity—always distinction—always a breed of life"(38-39).
Not many poets refer to sec as he did, barely they referred to it. His topics are quite unusual and reflect the period of change that lead to modern times. I really can not imagine a poet talking about sex in that time, although the mid 1800 centuries was a period of progress for the US, it is not as if we see that time as opened minded to sex as we are now.

His style is innovative and opens ways to a different way of poetry.