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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...

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...

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

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...

In four pages this essay analyzes Emerson's quote and the philosophies that inspired this outlook....

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...

In eight pages this paper discusses the social and political influences Walt Whitman exerted through his poetry from an historical...

spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

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...

nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...

the same as every other human being; there is really no other way to interpret the line "For every atom belonging to me as good be...

Walt Whitmans Song of Myself is a poem that is not necessarily about any one particular thing, not possessed of one single theme o...

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

center of the work is that which relates to length and depth. This is the longest poem in the work and it is a poem that deeply an...

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...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

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