Whitman And Emily Dickinson

I will choose to talk about “712” and “465” of Emily Dickinson’s poems for contrasting Whitman’s “Song of Myself”. Whitman and Dickinson have three differences of characteristics in their poems.
First, they have a different way to structure poems. Whitman’s poetic form is free verse. Whitman’s poems are narrative and expansive style. His voice is expansive and talk about A to Z. On the other hand, Dickinson is definite structure. Dickinson’ poem style is like distillation. There is a lack of rhetorical devices. She compresses her experience briefly and makes readers concentrate and focus precise something.
Second, they have different styles of language characteristics. As their poetic structures are opposite, they have different devices to progress the poems. Whitman’s poems do not have a
He made rhythm through using repetition. For example, in the 1 of “Song of Myself”, the passage ‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’ shows the alliteration of /s/ sound. Also, we can find consonance and assonance in the second line of the 1 of “Song of Myself”; ‘And what I assume you shall assume,’ (Consonance of ‘ss’), ‘I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.’ (Assonance of ‘ea’). And there are repetition phrases, such as ‘than there is now’ in 3, ‘in vain’ in 31, and ‘it shall be you’ in 24 of “Song of Myself”. Also, he writes some of “Song of Myself” utilizing senses image. On the other hand, Dickinson used ‘off’ or ‘slant’ rhymes to multiply aural possibilities, avoiding the traditional full rhyme. And she used dashes, capital letters in the middle of sentences and enjambment to make readers go straight to the point.