“Dickinson and Whitman: Breakthrough Poets” By Maggie Smith 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
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Lesson Title: I‚ Too‚ Sing America: Compare and Contrast Whitman and Hughes Course and Grade: American Literature‚ 11th Generalization: Tone and imagery can make or break a poem: being able to compare and contrast the use of tone and imagery in two different poetic texts provides insights into how to make powerful poems through establishing a tone by using powerful images. Compare and contrast is also a more generally applicable skill that will serve students well in other capacities (comparing
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body feels when it is hungry‚ full‚ or tired. In these ways‚ one could say that I am overly sensitive to my body and its ways and cues. However‚ I feel that it makes the sensations I have in my body more “electric.” In I Sing the Body Electric‚ Walt Whitman caught my eye with the very first few lines. The lines did not just speak to me because they were worded well or because they rhymed; they spoke to me because I corrupted my body. I brought my body to the brink of death hoping that my master
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February 7‚ 2011 Assignment 10 Walt Whitman’s use of first person in his poems‚ allows the reader to be the author’s spectator. It is like the author is talking directly to the reader‚ which makes the reader feel more comfortable to read the poem and understand it better. However‚ the author uses first person as a rhetorical device. This leads the reader to pay closely attention to the poem in order to figure out what topic the author is trying to make the reader consider‚ from his perspective
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Both poets‚ Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman‚ are writers of the same time; the Romantic one. Yet‚ even when they lived during the same era‚ the natures‚ as well as the looks of their poems are very much different. Emily Dickinson is a more private poet. When comparing “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” and “I started Early-Took My Dog” we clearly see the difference of those two aforementioned authors view of the sea. Walt Whitman feels comfortable with the sea as a natural element‚ gives it a
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this test to be especially heavy on works from the second half of the semester! • Thomas Cole’s Course of Empire sequence‚ The Oxbow‚ Katerskill Falls • William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” and “An Indian at the Burial Place of His Fathers” • Walt Whitman‚ “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer‚” “I Hear America Singing‚” “Song of Myself” • Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ “The Birth-Mark‚” “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” “The Earth’s Holocaust” • Hiram Powers’ Eve Tempted and The Greek Slave • Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As the Time Draws Near Assignment A This analytical essay will provide an analysis and interpretation of american writer Eowyn Ivey’s short story “As the Time Draws Near” (2012). The readers are introduced to the main character‚ Piper‚ who grew up in Alaska but later moved away. The short story follows her at a time when she has returned to Alaska in order to spread her dead father’s ashes under a particular spruce tree. She has a lot of thoughts about death and she is almost obsessed with it. Death
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In Poems "The Man He Killed"‚ "Reconciliation"‚ and "Dreamers"‚ the Authors Show That Man Kills Because He Must In the chosen poems‚ Thomas Hardy‚ Walt Whitman‚ and Sigfried Sassoon each have a common viewpoint: war brings out the worst in man‚ a feeling buried deep inside the heart. Even with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting ways of war‚ a flicker of remorse‚ a dream of someplace‚ something else still exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope‚ the hope that
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Whitman wrote‚ “I hear America singing.’’ The purpose of the poem was to tell the reader how the American dream was going when Whitman wrote this poem. Langston Hughes wrote‚” Let America be America again.’’ The purpose of this poem was to tell the reader that not everyone could have lived the american dream. What i have gathered they can both agree on that they want america to get better. Since‚ “ I hear america singing‚”and “Let America be America again” are similar and different. I can compare
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I SIT AND LOOK OUT Walt Whitman‚ a prominent American anti war poet‚ who lived during the times of civil war witnessed the condition around him with his own eyes and transformed it into literature which still stands relevant to our lives today. The advent of capitalism during this time and its rapid proliferation brought with itself several ramifications. Human concerns were relegated and principles were sidelined. In response to all the atrocities‚ the people looked around and turned a blind
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