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In 5 pages this paper examines the modern poetry contributions of uniquely American poet Walt Whitman. There are 6 sources cited ...
avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...
In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...
feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accu...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...
In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
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...
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...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
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...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...