You scored as Walt Whitman. You are most like Walt Whitman, one of America’s most influential poets. He was a nurse during the Civil War and wrote a poem for Lincoln after his assassination. Whitman soaked himself in all of life’s experiences including homosexuality. His philosophy on life was similar to that of Hinduism and Buddhism, in that he accepted all experience, even pain and death as part of the beauty of life. His most beloved include “Song of Myself” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” Walt Whitman 83% William Shakespeare 75% James Joyce 63% Ernest Hemingway 46% Edgar Allen Poe 42% Which famous author/poet are you? created with QuizFarm.com