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this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
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 5 pages this paper examines the modern poetry contributions of uniquely American poet Walt Whitman. There are 6 sources cited ...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...
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...
An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...
In eight pages this paper discusses the social and political influences Walt Whitman exerted through his poetry from an historical...
on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...
In seven pages this paper compares the Romantic perspectives articulated in the poetry of William Blake, Walt Whitman, and William...
free through no other means than verse. "Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the...
In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...
In six pages this paper discusses human nature's dark side as revealed in this trio of primitive culture documentaries....
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
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...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
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...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...