YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Structure in Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Essays 31 - 60
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...
selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
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 three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
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...
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...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...
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...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...
This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...
Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
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...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...