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Syllable from Sound --" (2509-2510). This poem considers the origin of reality, and true to her Transcendentalist beliefs, spec...

the feeling that the poet is engaging the reader in a secret and private conversation. One has the feeling that, in the breaks pro...

questions Gods intentions. The capitalization of "He" suggests an allusion to Christ, whose suffering, both mentally and physica...

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

sun, "a ribbon at a time" (35). By displaying one "ribbon" after another, Dickinson presented not just a story, but a complete cov...

line and the metaphor in the first, Dickinson employs all of the literary devices available, but, prefers, for the most part, to f...

to immortality" (73). The Civil War was being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many ...

educated, and grew up in a house that was essentially filled with political and intellectual stimulation. "All the Dickinson men w...

is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...

womens education and his ultimate hostility towards female intellectualism influenced his daughters choice of secular isolation to...

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

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

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...

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

thinks of an icon, most people who immediately come to mind are athletes, movie stars or politicians; hardly ever is someone more ...

In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

In 5 pages this 1950 poem serves as a reflection on the American literary Renaissance characterized by Walt Whitman and Ralph Wald...

In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...

In five pages this paper discusses the untraditional structural unity that is present in the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman...

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

In five pages Emerson's 'The Poet' essay is used to evaluate the writings of Walt Whitman. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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...