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free through no other means than verse. "Out from behind this bending, rough-cut mask, These lights and shades, this drama of the...
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,...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
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...
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...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
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 ...
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...
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...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...
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...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
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...