YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman
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stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
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,...
become the commander of the Walrus. At this point Bledsoe becomes the executive officer of the vessel. In relationship to adventur...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
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...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
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...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
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...
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...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
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...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
In seven pages the formation of beaches is discussed in terms of sand properties and beach profiles with a consideration of how we...
of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...
of establishing South Beach "as a successful city independent of Miami" ("South Beach"). In March, 1915, "Collins, Lummus, and Fis...
drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...