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

to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...

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

This paper compares and contrasts the universe and life outlook featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman in six pages. There a...

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

This paper considers the child as conceptually represented in the Romantic Era poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, and Willi...

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...

for the Jews at that time. Lastly, William Golding in his novel "The Lord of the Flies" (1954) reveals the theme of the horrors of...

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

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

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

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

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

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

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

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...

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

In five pages these poets' visions of the next century are examined in a consideration of their respective works. Five sources ar...

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

In 5 pages this paper examines William Wordsworth's poem 'Simon Lee' in a character analysis of the old huntsman. There are 5 sou...

This paper presents an analysis of the poet's feelings for a young woman as expressed in William Wordsworth's 'She Dwelt Among the...

In five pages this paper discusses how Walt Whitman represented the Civil War in such poems as 'A March in the Ranks Hard Prest an...

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

the Portuguese," the title of which is a veiled reference to her husbands pet nickname for her, inspired by her dark coloring whic...

of what we have learned to accept in more recent times. That we are but one race of creatures that has existed for only a short t...

poets intended to discard the pompous idiom of eighteenth century verse, and to employ the real language of modern men and women -...