Why would people in the 1800s find whitman's poetry to be so "revolutionary"?

In the mid-188’s Walt Whitman was considered a revolutionary because no one had ever written poetry like his before. His poetry was not only “free-verse” instead of a structured, rhymed writing style; it was also about the complexities of personal life, cultural life, and about things previously considered of intimate nature.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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