Compare And Contrast I Hear America Singing And A Nation's Strength

The poems I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman and A Nation’s Strength by Ralph W. Emerson are two poems that are from two different literature time frames but remarkably they have similarities and also some differences. Emerson was a harvard educated white man who wrote poems and became one of the key figures in the Romantic era including Transcendentalism. While Walt Whitman was the son of a farmer brother of eight other siblings whose love for America can be traced back to his own upbringing and parents. These two poems are similar in ways such as point of view and themes. But are different in ways such as style of writing and ways they convey their messages.

These two poems are very similar in the theme they try to get across to their