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  • Walt Whitman And Emily Dickinson
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    Two Poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders modern American poetry. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), for the time was breaking new ground with his diverse, energetic verse with regards to subject matter, form and style whether talking about overlooked objects in nature such as a single blade of grass or even our own hearing. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) while living a life of seclusion, never really lea...
  • Lonely Lifestyles Whitman And Dickinson
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    Loneliness: A Connection between the Poems and the Lives of the Writers The lives of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson have many similarities and differences. Here, we will focus on the similarities in their lives in order to bring to attention a correlation between Whitman's poem I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing and Dickinson's poem # 1510. Both poets wrote during the time of Romanticism, even though Whitman was Dickinson's senior by some eleven years. This however did not influence the way...
  • Whitman And Dickinson's Poetry Compare And Contrast
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    Walt Whitman and Emily are two of the best US writers in the last 2 centuries. All of their poetry has been well received and they had inspired many generations in the USA. In the following paragraph I am going compare these two great writers of the last two centuries. "Pictures" implies Whitman feels that all people have their own world inside of their brains, unique and incapable of being imitated. The brain to Whitman holds an expanding inventory of pictures, made up of both things remembered...
  • Whitman's Use Of Free Verse
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    Modern Poetry / Whitman and Dickinson Before delving into Modernist aspects of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson's poetry, I feel it necessary to explain where and how this movement blossomed. The Modernist movement was in many ways an extension of the Romantic Movement's ideals, although it brought it to an elevated level. The Romantic movement blossomed out of the rigid ness and formality of classicism. It was in a sense a kind of renaissance, and rediscovery. It rejected the idea that one coul...
  • Whitman And Dickinson
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    Emily Dickinson and Uncle Walt Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are two of literature's greatest innovators, they each changed the face of American literature. they are also considered one of literature's greatest pair of opposites. Dickinson is a timid wreck loose. While Whitman was very open and sociable, Whitman shares the ideas of William Cullen Bryant, everyone and everything is somehow linked by a higher bond. Both Whitman and Dickinson were decades ahead of their time, sharing only the un...

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