... -see Appendix- focusing on thematic contents and on the formal aspects which lead to their interpretation. The conclusive paragraph draws on the common motifs to Whitman and Dickinson in the poems analyzed. Emily Dickinson 1. The letters of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson distinguished herself not only for her poetry but also as writer of letters sent to friends, relatives. There is a close ... . Dickinson transcended not only poetry conventions of her time (by her free-verse, her particular use of punctuation and capitalization) but also epistolary ones, especially those for women, and ...

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... the view of American society. But one of these poets emerges from this group of people; an influential poet of the 19th century was Walt Whitman, author of the famous poems, "Leaves of Grass," and "O Captain, My Captain." Whitman blends the boundaries of the poetry world, with the American society, by displaying every inch of his mind ... in his works. Through his works in history, he has modernized the way Americans wrote poetry by covering controversial topics, continuing to write even though others were harshly criticizing his poems, and encouraging the American people not to be asha...

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... poem; however, does not specifically idealize nature, nor does it openly criticize mankind's preoccupation with progress. It also does not openly condemn religious convention. Conclusion In conclusion, between the three poems represented in this essay, based on the qualifications listed, The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth qualifies in more areas of the definition of Romanticism than do ... Crossing the Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge. Even still, the last two listed poems are still definitively recognized as examples ...

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... against fellow man, though at first it was for a cause that furthered unity and equality during his childhood. Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-contained universal themes of separation and love. "Passage to India", a poem from this collection, details a sailing voyage that is largely a metaphor for a journey that life takes through time and ... I ask not good-fortune; Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Strong and content, I travel the open road."). A firm devotion to democracy had much to do with...

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... adding and revising works within it until his death in 1892, Leaves of Grass is a compilation of nearly three hundred of these radical and powerfully written poems about commonplace events and common, working people. Whitman's poems in Leaves of Grass lack the standard patterns typical of poetry in the eighteen hundreds. He "introduced his use of catalogs," or listing, which ... became a trademark of his unique style of poetry (Baym 1312). In one of the most famous poems in Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself" Whitman expresses his belief in the "divine potential of the individual" and dem...

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... Whitman's poetry contains the same themes of Emerson but writes in a more concrete way opposed to abstract theories. Dickinson writes mainly of the self-reliant, private individual. Many of Dickinson's poems such as, "I Died for Beauty" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," deal with immortality. She views death as private thing that everyone goes through alone, isolating everyone. In contrast ... ...

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... that it is little more than a farce, but that true religion comes from inside, one personally finding the soul, rather than preaching and being preached to. Throughout "Howl and Other Poems" Ginsberg responds to a 20th Century American urban hell, bitter with greed and corruption. He condemns its capitalist and consumerist ways, whilst providing American citizens a rope with which to pull themselves ... ...

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