"Walt whitman poetry" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 22 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    American Literature

    • 292 Words
    • 2 Pages

    the basic ideas in Nature and The American Scholar by Emerson Walden by Thoreau Romanticism and Dark-Romanticism Hawthorne and The Minister’s Black Veil Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven and Masque of the Red Death Herman Mellville’s Moby Dick. Walt Whitman‚ Song of Myself. O Captain! My Captain!. Free Verse Realism Mark Twain‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Henry James‚ Daisy Miller Kate Chopin‚ The Story of an Hour Robert Frost and his poems. Modernism Ernst Hemingway‚ Pulitzer Prizes

    Premium Walt Whitman Edgar Allan Poe Transcendentalism

    • 292 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    I Hear America Singing

    • 474 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I Hear America Singing Walt was an American poet‚ essayist‚ and journalist. A humanist‚ he was a port of the transition between transcendentalism and realism‚ incorporating both views in his works. Walt wanted his poems to be spoken aloud because the words become more powerful when they can transcend the page. Walt Whitman wrote “I Hear America Singing” in the year of 1966. In “I Hear America Singing‚” the speaker describes various “carols” that arise from different figures in the American working

    Premium Poetry Walt Whitman United States

    • 474 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Democratic Themes          When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer I Hear America Singing       In his Preface to Leaves of Grass‚ Whitman states‚ “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem”.  Whitman was the ultimate Transcendentalist/ Romantic.  He united democratic themes and subject matter with free verse form.  In Leaves of Grass‚ Whitman celebrates unity of all life and people.  He embraces diversity of geography‚ culture‚ work‚ sexuality‚ and beliefs.  Whitman’s impact

    Free Walt Whitman United States Poetry

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    I Sit and Look Out

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission‚ having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem‚ I sit and look out. In this giant work‚ openness‚ freedom‚ and above all‚ individualism are all that concerned him. His aim was nothing less than to express some new poetical feelings and to initiate a poetic tradition in which difference should be recognized. Whitman is almost as blatant as this in his pacing of current experience because in the short poem “I Sit and Look Out

    Premium Poetry Walt Whitman Allen Ginsberg

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Captain Metaphors

    • 281 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I thought the poem was an excellent poem to demonstrate how important other people can be in your life. The way Walt Whitman worded the poem it brings to life this statement‚ " Exult O shores‚ and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread‚ Walk the deck my Captain lies‚ Fallen cold and dead." I believe this to be the strongest point to what I said. It shows just how much the man cared for and loved his captain‚ he didn’t celebrate with the others‚ he didn’t rejoice‚ he only mourned the loss of his

    Premium Poetry Walt Whitman Life

    • 281 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mecca Nelson Mrs. Balas & Ms. Delivuk Period 8 2/7/13 Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman show the effect the death of a great President has on the nation in their two pieces “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Funeral Train.” They include significant details such as the amounts of people affected and the shock of the nation due to this tragic event. Whitman and the American people in Sandburg’s piece have two unique but somewhat similar responses to Lincoln’s assassination. In “The Funeral

    Premium United States Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln

    • 447 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hand English III Honors 21 April 2013 “To You‚ Stranger” Follow up Essay Walt Whitman is considered one of America’s most influential Poets of all time. He wrote In a way that the “common man” could appreciate using free verse and a simple vocabulary. In my poem‚ “To You‚ Stranger”‚ I imitate Walt Whitman’s style and tone‚ appreciating his originality as a poet. In multiple poems I have found that Walt Whitman sees brief‚ chance encounters with strangers as an appropriate opportunity for

    Premium Poetry Walt Whitman

    • 382 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    priceless artwork that we own. In the 40s—and later the 90s in Boston‚—artwork stored in the Midwest was stolen‚ and many worked to try to recover it. We seem to have not gotten very far‚ though. In 1942‚ the Library of Congress lost some of Walt Whitman’s valuable poetry. They sent it to a guarded facility in the Midwest‚ where it was stored inside of sealed containers. This‚ however‚ hasn’t stopped the master thief from snatching up ten of the notebooks. A similar incident happened in Boston‚ Massachusetts

    Premium Police Crime United States

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Dead Poets Society

    • 947 Words
    • 4 Pages

    American spirit of democratic self-actualisation‚ as epitomised by the poet Walt Whitman‚ a portrait of whom Keating displays in his classroom and gestures toward when inciting the boys to emulate his free spirit. Inspired by Keating‚ the boys re-establish the “Dead Poets Society”‚ a club that Keating himself had participated in when a student at Welton. They convene at night in the romantic setting of a nearby cave and share poetry. Keating’s encouragement proves most successful with one of the “Dead

    Premium Dead Poets Society Walt Whitman

    • 947 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Many Americans perceive their country differently‚ whether it appears as the land of freedom and liberty‚ or the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different

    Premium United States African American Walt Whitman

    • 1132 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 50