Essays 31 - 60
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...
mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...
great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it"(Whitman 2003). This would seem to show a type of reflection on...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...
Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...
and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...
drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...
tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...
In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
thinks of an icon, most people who immediately come to mind are athletes, movie stars or politicians; hardly ever is someone more ...