The Harshness of War Effects Soldiers‚ As Well As the People Close to Them in “The Wound Dresser” and “Wars is Kind” @“The Wound Dresser” by Walt Whitman and “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane‚ are both sad yet beautifully poetic works of art that focus on the harshness of war with many similarities displayed in diverse ways like tone‚ writing style‚ theme‚ and how the author’s individual experiences with war have helped create these works of art. @First‚ both “The Wound Dresser” and “War is Kind” are
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society‚ there are people who want to be somebody‚ and people who just want to be nobody. From the songs of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson‚ we can see how they choose to become somebody or nobody. Walt Whitman in “Song of myself” presents a large American persona while Emily Dickinson in [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] presents a smaller persona. First of all‚ in “Song of myself‚” Walt Whitman keeps the poem long and looks complicated‚ but in “[I’m Nobody! Who are you?]‚” Emily Dickinson just tries
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time. In Crossing Brooklyn Ferry‚ Walt Whitman uses connotative diction‚ prying questions‚ and critical reader engagement to convey a feeling of connection and unity of people through time. By using these certain rhetoric strategies‚ Whitman creates a piece of poetry that seems to be timeless. Whitman carefully chooses certain words and phrases that really highlight his intentions to connect himself and others readers throughout time. In part 2 of the poem‚ Walt chooses the words “simple” and “compact”
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shape what America is today. It is usually a famous influential author who writes about the history‚ the landscape‚ the freedom and the American experience that they have came to know themselves. Author such as Fredrick Douglas‚ Mary Rowlandson and Walt Whitman are remembered for the literature they wrote about their experiences as an American and how it shaped American society and culture. There were many different period of American history‚ from the times of the colonial era to the post independence
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validity to it July 13‚ 2011 at 10:44 pm Walt Whitman: Whitman‚ Walt. “Song of Myself.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Jeanne Campbell Ressman and Arnold Krupat. 7th ed. New York‚ London: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2007. Print. July 13‚ 2011 at 11:09 pm In the poem “Success is counted sweetest” by Emily Dickinson the narrator depicts the true essence of success and its meaning to those who have failed July 13‚ 2011 at 11:21 pm In Walt Whitman’s famous work “Song of Myself” he
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"O Captain! my Captain!" Walt Whitman wrote the poem "O Captain! my Captain!" after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman describes Lincoln as the captain of the ship‚ as the leader of the country; he also refers to him as a father: "Here Captain! dear father!"(13)‚ "My father doesn’t feel my arm‚"(18). Clearly‚ a captain is not a father. Why‚ then‚ does Whitman connect the two together? Are there certain similarities between them that can’t be avoided? A captain is
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Nathan Hubschman Nathan Hubschman Ezra Pound Response: “The Tree” by Ezra Pound is about how Pound identifies with the tree-like state in which the nymph‚ Daphne‚ of Greek myth finds herself in order to escape Apollo. Pound begins the poem explaining how he was a “tree amid the wood” meaning a changed being amid a familiar yet under-perceived environment. He likens this form to the myth of Apollo who chases Daphne until she asks the god‚ Peneus‚ to change her into a tree. Even though she is
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“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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About Whitman Whitman’s greatest legacy is his invention of a truly American free verse. His groundbreaking‚ open‚ inclusive‚ and optimistic poems are written in long‚ sprawling lines and span an astonishing variety of subject matter and points of view—embodying the democratic spirit of his new America. He uses a number of literary devices to accomplish his work. Although written in free verse‚ meaning that it is not strictly metered or rhymed‚ sections of Leaves of Grass approach iambic meter
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Written in 1881 by Walt Whitman‚ “Song of Myself”‚ is known to “represent the core of Whitman’s poetic vision” (Greenspan). To many people‚ this poem is confusing and complex because of the wordplay and symbolism. This poem “requires a large perspective; you must not get your face too near the book. You must bring to it a magnanimity of spirt‚ a charity and faith equal to its own.” (Burroughs) Whitman starts out by introducing the subject the poem‚ himself‚ and continues to celebrate this topic
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