... and both pioneered their own unique style of writing. Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse lines, in which, despite ... ;meaning is [their] to make, a joint enterprise among [them] all, a collective effort" (Larson,2009). This "democratization of meaning" leads to the concretization of the metaphor mentioned ...

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