user: You are a structured reasoning expert tasked with solving problems step by step. 
You first think about the reasoning process in the mind and then provide the answer. The reasoning process and answer should be enclosed within <think> </think> and <answer> </answer> tags, respectively, i.e., <think> reasoning process here </think> <answer> answer here </answer>. 
Given a question and the associated knowledge graph triplets (entity, relation, entity), you are asked to answer the question with these triplets and your own knowledge. 
You can break down the original question into several sub-questions and explore the given knowledge graph to solve them step-by-step. If there are multiple possible answers, choose one as the final answer. 
After thinking, when you finally reach a conclusion, clearly state the answer within <answer> </answer> tags, i.e., <answer> answer here </answer>. 
Question: Which person who gained a government position on 03-05-1861 influenced Whitman's poetry? 
Knowledge Triplets: Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Richard Rorty
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, David Biespiel
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Clarence Darrow, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, clarence seward darrow inspired by walt whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Aberjhani
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: II. Look Down, Fair Moon, music.composition.composer, Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Bob Dylan
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Wallace Stevens
Charles Plymell, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Federico García Lorca, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
During the Civil War (1861-65), Whitman went to Fredericksburg after one of his brothers was wounded there., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.dates, m.0c0z8wr
David Biespiel, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Vincent Louis Carrella, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Henry David Thoreau
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, people.person.children, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Ralph Ellison, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
Between 1850-55, Whitman ran a printing shop and bookstore in Brooklyn and also speculated in real estate., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.next_sentence, He developed a controversial free verse style that reflected the everyday speech of ordinary people.
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced, Allen Ginsberg
Billy Childish, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Philip Levine, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Edgar Lee Masters
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Harold Bloom, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Harold Bloom, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I accept reality and dare not question it.
Denise Levertov, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, people.person.profession, Journalist
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Paul Éluard
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Miguel de Cervantes
Ebenezer Howard, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Pablo Neruda, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walter Lowenfels
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, D. H. Lawrence
clarence seward darrow inspired by walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, Darrow was inspired Inspired by Walt Whitman and was a member of the Walt Whitman Fellowship in Chicago.
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Jorge Luis Borges
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Gertrude Stein, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ernest Hemingway
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ralph Ellison
Between 1850-55, Whitman ran a printing shop and bookstore in Brooklyn and also speculated in real estate., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.previous_sentence, He also contributed short stories and poems to literary journals.
Mark Twain, influence.influence_node.influenced, William Dean Howells
Mary Hood, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Johannes V. Jensen
m.03pv8zn, people.place_lived.person, Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
John Dewey, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Fernando Cabrera, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, During the Civil War (1861-65), Whitman went to Fredericksburg after one of his brothers was wounded there.
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: I. Sometimes With One I Love, music.composition.lyricist, Walt Whitman
He also contributed short stories and poems to literary journals., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.next_sentence, Between 1850-55, Whitman ran a printing shop and bookstore in Brooklyn and also speculated in real estate.
Langston Hughes, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, John Berryman
Walt Whitman, people.person.profession, Poet
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced, Larry Heinemann
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
Allen Ginsberg, influence.influence_node.influenced, William S. Burroughs
John Green, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Robert Peters, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Michael C. Ford
Allen Ginsberg, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
John Berryman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Rainer Maria Rilke
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, John Most
Robinson Jeffers, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He went to live at his brother's home in Camden, NJ, and in 1874, he lost his government job.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ralph Ellison
John Berryman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, walt whitman wrote poem about abraham lincoln
Jan Smuts, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, While studying in England, wrote a book about American poet Whitman, but could not get it published.
walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
Johannes V. Jensen, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Russell Banks
Jack Kerouac, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Michael Cunningham, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
jan christiaan smuts wrote book on walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, While studying in England, wrote a book about American poet Whitman, but could not get it published.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, William Michaelian
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Billy Childish
Oton Župančič, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Michael Cunningham
Heinrich Heine, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
walt whitman influenced william carlos williams, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, He influenced the work of  William Carlos Williams.
Ezra Pound, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
He also contributed short stories and poems to literary journals., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, inspired
Walt Whitman, people.person.religion, Unitarian Universalism
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, walt whitman influenced william carlos williams
Walt Whitman, people.person.nationality, United States of America
Walter Lowenfels, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Thomas Carlyle
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
walt whitman inspired jan christiaan smuts, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Jan Smuts
walt whitman met william dean howells, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
walt whitman wrote poem about abraham lincoln, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, wrote poem about
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: I. Sometimes With One I Love, music.composition.recordings, Sometimes With One I Love
Allen Ginsberg, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, William S. Burroughs
Russell Banks, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ebenezer Howard
m.04hxfd7, people.place_lived.person, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.profession, Author
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ebenezer Howard
Walt Whitman, people.person.places_lived, m.03ppvn1
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Philip Levine
Jorge Luis Borges, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
D. H. Lawrence, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, people.person.gender, Female
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Pablo Neruda
William Michaelian, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He developed a controversial free verse style that reflected the everyday speech of ordinary people.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Federico García Lorca
He developed a controversial free verse style that reflected the everyday speech of ordinary people., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.previous_sentence, Between 1850-55, Whitman ran a printing shop and bookstore in Brooklyn and also speculated in real estate.
Walt Whitman, people.person.parents, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Fernando Pessoa, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, John Dos Passos
John Milton, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Michael C. Ford, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: I. Sometimes With One I Love, common.topic.notable_for, g.1z2spm_hj
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Taylor Mali
Edgar Allan Poe, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_to, ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman
walt whitman inspired jan christiaan smuts, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
walt whitman wrote poem about abraham lincoln, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Abraham Lincoln
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Jack Kerouac
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Fernando Pessoa
Paul Auster, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
walt whitman inspired jan christiaan smuts, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, inspired
William Faulkner, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Oscar Wilde
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
Clarence Darrow, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, Darrow was inspired Inspired by Walt Whitman and was a member of the Walt Whitman Fellowship in Chicago.
He claimed transcendentalist Emerson's view of nature had inspired him, though Whitman's view was much more robust., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.contains_connections, walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: II. Look Down, Fair Moon, common.topic.notable_for, g.1z2sr0wd8
Richard Rorty, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Sherwood Anderson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
walt whitman influenced william carlos williams, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, William Carlos Williams
He influenced the work of  William Carlos Williams., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Taylor Mali, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Hart Crane
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Mary Hood
Mark Twain, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ernest Hemingway
Larry Heinemann, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, inspired
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Robinson Jeffers
Larry Heinemann, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
Arthur Rimbaud, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Charles Baudelaire
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Mark Twain, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, William Dean Howells
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Benjamin Barber
John Most, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, T. S. Eliot
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: I. Sometimes With One I Love, music.composition.composer, Ned Rorem
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, James Broughton
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Abraham Lincoln, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
walt whitman influenced william carlos williams, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, influenced
He went to live at his brother's home in Camden, NJ, and in 1874, he lost his government job., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.previous_sentence, In 1873, Whitman had the first of a series of  strokes that left him partly paralyzed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_to, walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson
Clarence Darrow, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_to, walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow
Nathaniel Hawthorne, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Larry Heinemann
clarence seward darrow inspired by walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Clarence Darrow
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.peers, m.03btdq_
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Mary Oliver
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Abraham Lincoln, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_to, walt whitman wrote poem about abraham lincoln
Edgar Lee Masters, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
William Dean Howells, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, Howells made a brief visit to New York, where he was intrigued by the poet Whitman.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Diane Wakoski
Ernest Hemingway, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Henry David Thoreau
m.03ppvn1, people.place_lived.person, Walt Whitman
william dean howells met walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, met
Ralph Ellison, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
The third edition of \"Leaves of Grass\", brought out by a Boston publisher in 1860, became infamous., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Hart Crane, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Felice Picano, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Allen Ginsberg
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Langston Hughes
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Richard McCann
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Fernando Cabrera
He went to live at his brother's home in Camden, NJ, and in 1874, he lost his government job., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
Ralph Ellison, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ernest Hemingway
Henry David Thoreau, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He influenced the work of  William Carlos Williams.
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He claimed transcendentalist Emerson's view of nature had inspired him, though Whitman's view was much more robust.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Charles Plymell
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Abraham Lincoln
He inspired Darrow., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne, influence.influence_node.influenced, Henry David Thoreau
walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, inspired by
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
During the Civil War (1861-65), Whitman went to Fredericksburg after one of his brothers was wounded there., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ezra Pound
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He inspired Darrow.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Michael Pendragon
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ralph Ellison
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, We convince by our presence.
Paul Éluard, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Another poem in the third edition, \"Children of Adam\", was also considered scandalous because it celebrated love outside marriage., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.next_sentence, During the Civil War (1861-65), Whitman went to Fredericksburg after one of his brothers was wounded there.
Edmund Wilson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Gertrude Stein
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: II. Look Down, Fair Moon, music.composition.lyricist, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Robert Peters
The content of his poetry was equally controversial., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Henry Miller, influence.influence_node.influenced, William S. Burroughs
Thomas Carlyle, influence.influence_node.influenced, Henry David Thoreau
william dean howells met walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, Howells made a brief visit to New York, where he was intrigued by the poet Whitman.
walt whitman met william dean howells, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, Met editor Howells.
William Dean Howells, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Ralph Waldo Emerson
clarence seward darrow inspired by walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Walt Whitman
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, John Milton
He inspired Darrow., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.contains_connections, walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Immanuel Kant
Walt Whitman edit 2, common.image.appears_in_topic_gallery, Historical poetry
William Carlos Williams, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.ethnicity, Dutch-American
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced, William Faulkner
Walter Scott, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
Frank Stanford, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Tristan Tzara
Aberjhani, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
Thomas Carlyle, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
There is no evidence that Whitman was homosexual, but there is no evidence of the children, either., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.next_sentence, Another poem in the third edition, \"Children of Adam\", was also considered scandalous because it celebrated love outside marriage.
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, He also contributed short stories and poems to literary journals.
During the Civil War (1861-65), Whitman went to Fredericksburg after one of his brothers was wounded there., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.previous_sentence, Another poem in the third edition, \"Children of Adam\", was also considered scandalous because it celebrated love outside marriage.
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, When I give I give myself.
walt whitman wrote poem about abraham lincoln, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Ralph Waldo Emerson
He claimed transcendentalist Emerson's view of nature had inspired him, though Whitman's view was much more robust., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe, influence.influence_node.influenced, Herman Melville
Walt Whitman, people.person.profession, Philosopher
Oscar Wilde, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
Michael Pendragon, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, Inspired Whitman, Melville.
T. S. Eliot, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau, influence.influence_node.influenced, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Henry David Thoreau
walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, He inspired Darrow.
William S. Burroughs, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Arthur Rimbaud
Cornel West, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Herman Melville
walt whitman met william dean howells, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, met
Walter Whitman, Sr., people.person.children, Walt Whitman
Tristan Tzara, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
m.03btdq_, influence.peer_relationship.peers, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Abraham Lincoln
Michael McClure, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
walt whitman met william dean howells, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, William Dean Howells
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, John Green
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Harold Bloom
Wallace Stevens, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
John Dos Passos, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Galway Kinnell, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced, William Dean Howells
He developed a controversial free verse style that reflected the everyday speech of ordinary people., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.kwtopic, Walt Whitman
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Felice Picano
clarence seward darrow inspired by walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.relation, inspired by
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Oton Župančič
ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Harry Northup
ralph waldo emerson inspired walt whitman, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, Inspired Whitman, Melville.
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Galway Kinnell
Edmund Wilson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Arthur Rimbaud
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diane Wakoski, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walter Scott
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Vincent Louis Carrella
James Broughton, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
He influenced the work of  William Carlos Williams., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.contains_connections, walt whitman influenced william carlos williams
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Between 1850-55, Whitman ran a printing shop and bookstore in Brooklyn and also speculated in real estate., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.dates, m.0c0z8sr
Richard Brautigan, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Arthur Rimbaud, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Arthur Rimbaud
William Carlos Williams, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_to, walt whitman influenced william carlos williams
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Richard Brautigan
Walt Whitman, people.person.religion, Pantheism
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Michael McClure
walt whitman inspired by ralph waldo emerson, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.sentence, He claimed transcendentalist Emerson's view of nature had inspired him, though Whitman's view was much more robust.
Marcel Proust, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.connections_from, walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow
William Dean Howells, influence.influence_node.influenced, Mark Twain
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, William Carlos Williams
Rudyard Kipling, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ernest Hemingway
Mary Oliver, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ralph Ellison, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard McCann, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Ebenezer Howard, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Produce great men, the rest follows.
Benjamin Barber, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Herman Melville, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Nathaniel Hawthorne
walt whitman influenced william carlos williams, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.subject, Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, people.person.profession, Writer
Five Poems of Walt Whitman: II. Look Down, Fair Moon, music.composition.recordings, Look Down, Fair Moon
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Frank Stanford
Walt Whitman, base.kwebbase.kwtopic.has_sentences, The content of his poetry was equally controversial.
Arthur Rimbaud, influence.influence_node.influenced, William S. Burroughs
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Harry Northup, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Walter Pater, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Walt Whitman, people.person.quotations, I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
In 1873, Whitman had the first of a series of  strokes that left him partly paralyzed., base.kwebbase.kwsentence.next_sentence, He went to live at his brother's home in Camden, NJ, and in 1874, he lost his government job.
John Donne, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ernest Hemingway
walt whitman inspired clarence seward darrow, base.kwebbase.kwconnection.other, Clarence Darrow
Walt Whitman, influence.influence_node.influenced, Sherwood Anderson
Bob Dylan, influence.influence_node.influenced_by, Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau, influence.influence_node.influenced, Ernest Hemingway

Answer: Abraham Lincoln