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In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

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...

are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...

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...

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

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...