惠特曼常被称为自由诗之父。

Whitman is often referred to as the father of free verse.

他的诗有很大部份是自由诗。

A great number of his poems were free verse.

自由诗好比自由恋爱, 那是语词矛盾的说话.

Free verse is like free love; it is contradiction in term.

自由诗好比自由恋爱，那是语词矛盾的说话。

Free verse is like free love; it is contradiction in terms.

我念了一些你的现代自由诗,我思疑到底是谁让它自由的.

I have read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

作自由诗,好比放倒了球网打网球.

Write free verse like playing tennis with the net down.

大众不习惯自由诗（不受格律约束）或是抽象画或是没有情节的小说。

The public wasn't accustomed to free-verse poems or abstract paintings or plotless novels.