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    literature is a “faithful and objective mirror of life”. Recreating life in the real‚ life as it was. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman each revealed the nature of life’s journey as the ordinary human faced it. Twain and Whitman strove for spiritual knowledge as they journeyed through life‚ each seeking to understand the aspects of their own spirituality. “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman and “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain mirrored life through the aspect of spirituality. They both were looking for a way

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    “I Has” is a free verse poem written by Walt Whitman. “LABAA” was written by Langston Hughes. Walt Whitman wa born in 1819 and died in 1892. Both writers have kind of a similar writing style. Langston grew up reading some of Walt Whitman’s poems‚ so he kind of got his writing style from Whitman. Both of the poems have very good vocabulary. Langston’s poem is longer‚ but Whitman’s is a free verse poem. Free verse’s are easier because you don’t have to write about one specific topic‚ and are able to

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    I chose Walt Whitman for my biography report because Mr. Farlow said that if I wasn’t going to take this class seriously and pick a real poet I might as well not come to class anymore. Walt Whitman was an awful child molester who was born in ancient Hong Kong. He is over 3‚000 years old and remembers the names of all the forgotten Gods. Walt Whitman is 90 stories tall‚ and his adventures are legendary. With his blue ox‚ Emily Dickenson‚ Walt Whitman traveled across young America and helped

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    Old Walt Old Walt Whitman Went finding and seeking‚ Finding less than sought Seeking more than found‚ Every detail minding Of the seeking or the finding. Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding‚ Each detail minding‚ Old Walt went seeking And finding. Langston Hughes‚ 1954 from A Supermarket in California Where are we going Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight? (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel

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    Dickinson Whitman Compare Contrast The real distinction with Emily and Walt was that Emily had short and apparently straightforward ballads. In any case‚ Walt’s sonnets were long and frequently mind boggling. Emily’s works were considerably more discouraging then Walt’s written work was. Additionally Whitman utilizes extensive and tedious depictions as a part of his verse‚ yet Dickinson is straight to the point. In Comparison Whitman and Dickinson are both artists for the Romantic Era. Both artists

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    Very few people will contest that Walt Whitman may be one of the most important and influential writers in American literary history and conceivably the single most influential poet. However many have claimed that Whitman’s writing is so free form as evident in his 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself that it has no style. The poetic structures he uses are unconventional but reflect his very democratic ideals towards America. Although Whitman’s writing does not include a structure that

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    a Snowy Evening Robert Frost was an amazing poet with poems that ring out with “autumnal tones of New England” (Charters‚ 862). Robert was born in San Francisco in 1874 but did not truly begin his life until 1912 when he and his family moved to England and he was able to pursue his writings. Frost has many amazing works of poetry and like most poets‚ he has many poems that went unnoticed. The Road Not Taken and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening both embody the classic Frost ambiance; they are

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    Born on the day of March 26‚ 1874‚ in San Francisco‚ California‚ Robert Lee Frost was one of America’s most famous poets. Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes before he died in 1963. The first one in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes‚ then in1931 for Collected Poems‚ in 1937 for A Further Range‚ and the last on in 1943 for A Witness Tree. Married to Elinor Miriam White‚ who was his co-valedictorian at high school‚ he lived in various locations throughout his life‚ in San Francisco

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    Rainey Pre-AP English 11 9 April 2013 Heroes Among Us Walt Whitman had a knack for emitting heroic qualities‚ like those of soldiers‚ into average people. Whitman was a volunteer nurse in the Civil War and vividly relives his experiences from the hospital tents through his poetry and his characters. While a nurse‚ Whitman was advised by other‚ more experienced nurses to not build personal relationships with the patients. Walt Whitman did not heed these warnings and collected information from

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    Hi my name is Franz Liszt. I was born October 22 1811 in Hungary. My father was an official in the service of prince Nicolas Eszterhazy. I was learning to play the piano at age five. I started to compose music when I was eight years old. When I was nine I made my first public appearance as a pianist at Pozsony (now Bratislava‚ Slvk.). I guess impressed the rich people so much that I got enough money to support myself through music school for the next six years. I had piano lessons from Carl Czerny

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