... as a political poem. For a public poem you have to be able to become almost impersonal, to generalize, and to find some kind of objective distance from the self. When the diction of the modern poem - the language and the syntax - is used for large generalizations it usually sounds overblown and uncomfortable. Often the poetry only works when there is an assumed ... ...
... as a political poem. For a public poem you have to be able to become almost impersonal, to generalize, and to find some kind of objective distance from the self. When the diction of the modern poem - the language and the syntax - is used for large generalizations it usually sounds overblown and uncomfortable. Often the poetry only works when there is an assumed ... ...
... newspaper with his ideas against slavery and let him go. Whitman's poetry wasn"t well taken to in the beginning. During the 1840's his poems were said to be artificial in diction and didactic in purpose, "Whitman rarely seems inspired or innovative."(Price) By the 1850's Whitman had undertaken some more self education in the form of poetry. His change from that ... ...
