YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
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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,...
all (Hinze PG). Dickinson is described as reclusive and shy. Although she was well educated, she is said to have often deferred ...
on other writers who were to follow them. However, just as Emerson did not express his philosophy in the same way as Thoreau, foll...
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...
each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...
present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...
A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....
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...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
"failed," not why she died (line 5). The conversation between these two deceased who died for their art continues "Until the Moss ...
on all aspects of Transcendentalism in one way or another, for her poetry was very much that which developed as Emily herself went...
we suppose that the nature of that is reciprocal, despite any lack of evidence (Barash). Furthermore, he argues that not only is ...
therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...
apart from the literary establishment through concise and reticent and very powerful poems (McNair 146). Through her use of langua...
In three pages these two poems are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
This paper defines poetry and considers its development and various structures in four pages with Ogden Nash and Emily Dickinson's...
that in this poem, Dickinson sees death as a "courtly lover," accepting at face value the lines concerning his "civility" (Griffit...
This paper examines Emily Dickinson's life, attitudes, and poetry in 7 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
this household, Emilys early life was a contradiction in itself, for she received no guidance from a mother that did not "care for...
In a paper consisting of 6 pages Emily Dickinson's life and poetry are considered with a discussion of her American literary contr...
to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...
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...
apt description of reverie being that which is made up of a few simple things; and if those things are not available, well, reveri...