Emily Dickinson And Walt Whitman Comparison

BAM! Is what the world did in nineteenth century when the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came into the world? Dickinson and Whitman are two amazing poets of the nineteenth century. Emily Dickinson wrote poetry of great power; but lived a life of simplicity and seclusion. She questioned the nature of death and immortality, with times of repetitive quality. However Walt Whitman was part of the transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his poems. But the compare in many was by their fascinate in death and its views in it. Although Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are considered one of Americans greatest poets, their unique and personally styles are completely different and similar in comparative ways.
Born in 1830, Emily
Dickinson was destined to becoming a great poet of all time. Like other authors after her death in 1886 was when she became known for her poems.
In fact, she was a quiet and very reclusive woman who hardly left her home town. Emily was born in a quiet New-England town Amherst, Massachusetts, has been called the “Belle of Amherst.” At the home she was raised in, Emily was frequently in her garden. Dickinson was secretly writing and only a few people she corresponded with knew and saw her poems. Only seven poems were published during her lifetime. However, they happened to be poems she written to other people who had them published. Dickinson sheltered life may have result in family members and friends death. Clearly, she valued the few friends she had, ever though she shut herself out of the world. A lot of recent, sexual feelings were questions of Emily writings. Refusing to dedicate her life to Jesus Christ she dropped out of school. Although she clearly believed in God and heaven, but the views of her peers where different. In a poem of hers, she says: “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-I keep it, staying at Home- With a Bobolink for Chorister-And an Orchard, for a Dome-Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice-I just wear my wings-And instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, Our little Sexton-Sings. God preaches, a noted Clergyman-And the sermon is never long, So instead of going to
Heaven, at last-I’m going, all along.” On her own terms, Emily wanted her poems published, but Emily was unwilling to take a risk with publishers. Emily Dickinson invented her own style for her poetry. Similar in may way, to old ballads of English, making her poems have a sing-song quality. Alternate in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimester. Emile kept writing her poetry even without a publisher. In one poem she calls them “my letters to the world which never wrote to me.” After her death Lavinia her sister found her poems and had them published. Now Emily is considered one of America’s greatest poets, and been America’s first major female poet in all of Western literature. Having her letters to the world is known to an audience.
Emily Dickinson, great poet of America has to share it with Walt Whitman. Whitman changed the course of poetry, single handedly inventing free verse poetry with no rhythm and rhyme, dominating the last century. He was born in 1819, between the American Revolution and the Civil War. American had changed dramatically when Whitman published his first edition of poetry in 1855. The diversity of America is what fascinated Walt Whitman. American was the greatest nation to Whitman because of skilled and hard-working people in the world. Whitman held many jobs before becoming a poet. He started having odd jobs and was poor as a child. He was a printer, journalist, schoolteacher, and carpenter. Walt Whitman was interested in ancient Egypt, astrology, phrenology, politics, and fascinated by the power of words. Even the sights and sounds fascinated him. Living a fuller life, Whitman turn to poetry, which was very different, been thought as organic. Weird, not considered poetry is what many people said and thought. For publishing his first poems “Leaves of Grass”, pay entirely by himself. Whitman expression of free verse was democratic concepts of America vast diverse. He wrote, “what we call poems are merely pictures. The real poems are the men and women in all variety of human experience.” Whitman invented sexuality incidentally as literature of an American subject. Envision n his poem I Hear America Singing, as a giant chorus and American song. “ I HEAR American singing, I varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics—each one singing his, as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belong to him in his boat—the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; the shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter’s-song—the ploughboy’s, on his way in the morning, of at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else’ The day what belongs to the day—At bight, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths, their strong melodious songs.”
However, both nineteenth century writers Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman share many similarities when delved into thoroughly. Although their approaches differ, they deal with same themes, both pioneering their own unique style of writing poetry. One style Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman had was death and it was probably the strongest connection. Another one is religion, which is a subject the writers struggle with, often tying into a death theme. Considered outdated, irrelevant and scrutinized was religion. Whitman and Dickinson both hailed as unique and original artists. Both the poets having distinctive voices that people have attempted to replicate and have failed to do so. Whitman wrote in epic proportions, very un-epic manner. Developing his own rhythmic structure, creating stanzas and complex lines. His style of free verse helped distinguish him a great American poet. He had a preoccupatio0n with the human body, numerous “taboo” subjects, and sex changing American public’s view of poetry. Emily is just as unique, due to her unusual grammar, simplicity of language and her odd placement of punctuation. Lines ending abruptly, innocuous words capitalized, tendency writing meters a hymnal that distinguishes her from writers. Both Emily and Walt wrote common everyday objects and people. At the same time addressing large issues of no context within life. While their works and views are quite different, sharing common themes, namely religion, death, also a sense of commonality when reading both Dickinson and Whitman works side by side. Offering distinct voices and beliefs echoing still today, acclaimed both American writers. After the time Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman had hit the world, they changed the view of American literature poetry. Emily Dickinson was fascinated with four main ideas love, death, religious, and nature. She also lived a very simplicity and seclusion life. While Walt Whitman was Transcendentalism and realism, he was also very liberal with his work. He mainly invented sexuality in his work and the world. Although the difference the shown a great similarity in death, which both of them fascinated. Although Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are considered one of Americans greatest poets, their unique and personally styles are completely different and similar in comparative ways.