Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson On the surface Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman may seem to be polar opposites‚ and in many regards that is true; however they bear many similarities as poets. Both Dickinson and Whitman are considered to both be poets that paved the way for what is known today as modern American poetry. One might find seemingly different accounts of the same subject matter in their poetry given their different lifestyles in the same time period . Both found that the natural world
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two notorious literary geniuses whose works influenced the world. These two poets are famous for having unique styles of writing that could be described as a contrasts between one another‚ though they do have similarities between their themes. Walt Whitman’s narrative works are very extensive and descriptive‚ you can see as he paints a picture with his words with his poems versus Dickinson whose writing style is condensed and to the point. Her poems are thought
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Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are two poets that helped shape the way we think about poetry. While their backgrounds and writing styles were quite different‚ both Dickinson and Whitman challenged accepted forms of writing and are regarded today as important poets. Dickinson and Whitman had very different upbringings. Dickinson was raised in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ and had two siblings. She was always put in the best schools and even received a college education at Mount Holyoke. Her family
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were Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Walt Whitman became widely known for his novel Leaves of Grass‚ published in 1855 (VanSpankeren). In the story‚ he embraced the democratic opportunity America possessed‚ which he expressed by characteristics of nature. He wrote about certain animals like birds‚ and how he saw himself in nature due to an adventurous spirit. He also encouraged the view of unity with people and the physical environment‚ a view that Emily Dickinson also shared. Dickinson was
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Walter Whitman and Emily Dickinson wrote in the same era but had a different way of creating their own writing styles. Dickinson and Whitman’s lives were absolutely opposite‚ Whitman traveled often and wanted his poems published. While Dickinson lived in solitude and solemnly traveled‚ and never wanted her poems published. Whitman and Dickinson have left a legacy of new writing and have created an idea that there are rules to poetry but they do not have to be followed. The legacy of Emily
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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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really know about the people in our lives. After putting on a show for so long‚ do we even know who we are without the show? We should all be glad that there isn’t a mirror that exists somewhere that shows you who you really are underneath it all. Emily Dickinson’s poems “A wounded deer leaps highest” and “To fight aloud is very brave” touch on this idea of outward appearances versus inward appearances and the importance behind both of them. Focusing just on outward appearances and its importance
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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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Walt Whitman Walt Whitman revolutionized American poetry. Responding to Emerson’s call in “The Poet” (1842) for an American bard who would address all “the facts of the animal economy‚ sex‚ nutriment‚ gestation‚ birth‚” he put the living‚ breathing‚ sexual body at the center of much of his poetry‚ challenging conventions of the day. Responding to Emerson’s call for a “metre-making argument‚” he rejected traditions of poetic scansion and elevated diction‚ improvising the form that has come
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two of them being Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Although they were both very impactful after their lifetime because of their poetry exemplifying the change going on in America‚ many couldn’t see that change while they were living. Both poets had many differences and similarities that are shown in their poetry. In order to determine the similarities and differences of Whitman and Dickinson’s poetry‚ one must look at their background‚ themes‚ and style of their poetry. Whitman was a very unique
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