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Day By Day Walt Whitman
1,319 wordsWalt Whitman's poem A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, sets the picture of a solider camp near a battlefield. (This was probably around the time when he served as a volunteer nurse and comforter in the army. ) In line two Whitman wakes up early due to little sleep, perhaps from going to battle. As he goes outside near the hospital tent, he sees three people on stretchers brought outside untended. He describes the blankets covering the soldiers over each stretcher. In the next lines se...
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Live Oak With Moss Oak With Moss Whitman
589 wordsWalt Whitman's Live Oak, With Moss, is an intricate portrayal of love, both physical and mental. Throughout the poem, Whitman incorporates an array of metaphors symbolic of love to describe to the reader the intense emotion that is associated with love. Throughout Live Oak, With Moss, Whitman illustrates the great pleasure associated with love. Introducing his love as a consuming burning flame, Whitman affectively gains the complete attention of the reader. Once convenient, Whitman begins to des...
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Underlying Meaning Peoples Lives
1,126 wordsWhen a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman's poem, Beat! Beat! Drums, the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles, relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of peoples lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects on the common people. Whitman uses two types of imagery to express the cold indirect and direct effects of war. Whitman us...
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Walt Whitman The American Poet
553 wordsTheres no question to who the worlds greatest poet is, William Shakespeare, but theres also no question to who the worlds greatest 19 th century poet is, Walt Whitman. Whitman was a great influence on many American and foreign poets. His style and concerns are like no others. Where would American literature be today without Walt Whitman? Whitman was born in Huntington, New York. He was the second born of nine children. His family moved when he was four and he grew up in Brooklyn. For many years ...
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Nature Of Reality Material World
579 wordsMetaphysical Ambivalence Walt Whitman's Song of Myself explores the philosophical nature of this world. By definition, metaphysics is the study that seeks to uncover the nature of reality and of being itself. In not directly committing to one of the already accepted and more traditional doctrines of materialism or idealism, the poem suggests the existence of a more radical theory that draws its support from both extremes of the metaphysical spectrum. Whitman challenges the notion that the nature...
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Comparing And Contrasting Anecdotes Of Edwards Whitman
930 wordsIf everyone thought the same, if everyones form was alike, if everyone had no distinctions, then life would not be the same. Nothing is ever the same. Our thoughts and ideas differ, as we think in different levels, but even our ideas have similarities. The foundations of our ideas are connected through the various uses of languages and techniques. Though Edwards and Whitman's anecdotes differed abundantly in theme and explanation, they had similarities in regard to tone, imagery, diction, poetic...
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Walt Whitman And William Carlos Williams
665 wordsWalt Whitman (1819 - 1892) and William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963) are two American poets, who have significantly influenced contemporary literature. Whitman and Williams brought new ideas into poetry and many outstanding American poets of the twentieth century name Whitman and Williams as their tutors. Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams belong to different generations and social circles, but many literary critics, authors and linguists agree that Williams proceeds the ideas of Whitman. ...
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Love Of Nature First Stanza
343 wordsWalt Whitman's This Compost, similar to most of his poetry, is written is free verse; therefore, instead of using rhyme and meter to create an underlying rhythm, he creates a rhythm with his gradual flow of thoughts and abundant use of repetition. Also similar to many of Whitman's poems, This Compost emphasizes nature, the physical body, sexuality, and the phenomenon of common, ordinary things. The poem is written in first person and is merely the thought process of the narrator as he reflects o...
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19 Th Century Passage To India
1,031 wordsPassage to India The end of the 19 th century was the time when scientific and cultural progress was being strongly associated with European geopolitical expansionism. The pace of this progress, at that time, was truly amazing. Therefore, it was only natural for the poets and writers of the era to view contemporary realities as the basis of their creativeness. Walt Whitman's poem Passage to India, written in 1871, proves the validity of this statement to the full extent, because it is essentiall...
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Walt Whitman This Compost
1,363 wordsWalt Whitman's This Compost Walt Whitman's This Compost, similar to most of his poetry, is written is free verse; therefore, instead of using rhyme and meter to create an underlying rhythm, he creates a rhythm with his gradual flow of thoughts and abundant use of repetition. Also similar to many of Whitman's poems, This Compost emphasizes nature, the physical body, sexuality, and the phenomenon of common, ordinary things. The poem is written in first person and is merely the thought process of t...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry By Walt Whitman
706 words"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman glorifies the eternity of life. Life, as the main theme, is viewed by the poet in many images of humans, natural and man-made environment. Diversity, mutability and constant motion of life are symbolized in ordinary things: sea-gulls, reflection of the summer sky (epithet) in the water, shimmering track of beams (metaphor), sailors at work, pilots in their pilothouses, grey walls of the granite storehouses...
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William Carlos Williams External World
2,179 wordsPerhaps the most basic and essential function of poetry is to evoke a particular response in threaded. The poet, desiring to convey on emotion or inspiration, uses the imagination to create a structure that will properly communicate his state of mind. In essence he is attempting to bring himself and the reader closer, to establish a relationship. William Carlos Williams contends that art gives the feeling of completion by revealing the oneness of experience (194) This argument relies on the prec...
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Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson
459 wordsEmily Dickinson and Uncle Walt Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are two of literatures greatest innovators, they each changed the face of American literature. they are also considered one of literatures greatest pair of opposites. Dickinson is a timid wreck loose. While Whitman was very open and sociable, Whitman shares the ideas of William Cullen Bryant, everyone and everything is somehow linked by a higher bond. Both Whitman and Dickinson were decades ahead of their time, sharing only the univ...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
4,882 wordsReprinted from the book, FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY: AMERICAN POETRY 1945 - 1965 by James E. Breslin published by the University of Chicago Press, copyright? 1983, 1994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair use provisions of US and international copyright law and agreement, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provide...
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Walt Whitman Mother Figure
1,020 wordsKerry C. Larson Legislated Union, in the wake of failed resolutions and bloody compromises, seemed more than ever a contradiction in terms, a premonition given added vehemence in " For You O Democracy" ... It goes without saying that these pious exhortations count as little more than stop-gap measures, wishful prophecies whose inflated optimism is portentous in its own right. from Whitman's Drama of Consensus (U of Chicago P, 1988), 16 Carol M. Zapata-Whelan " Echoing the eugenics...
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Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman
473 wordsJames E. Miller, Jr" I Hear America Singing" presents an image of America that America would like to believe true image of proud and healthy individualists engaged in productive and happy labor. Mechanic, carpenter, mason, boatman, deckhand, shoemaker, hatter, wood-cutter, plowboy from city to country, from sea to land, the " varied carols" reflect a genuine joy in the days creative labor that makes up the essence of the American dream or myth... America singing emerges as a ...
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Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman
1,449 wordsJames Dougherty The 1855 " Song of Myself" had announced that the " word of the modern" was " a word en masse, " and eventually Whitman would revise this 1867 Inscription to affirm that " En-Masse" was also " the word Democratic. " In a modern, democratic society, as Tocqueville had said, no intermediate allegiances stand between the individual citizen and the entire body politic. The Self is indeed separate, isolated; it has renounced party and ...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Persons Life
863 wordsOne and the Same Walt Whitman asks himself and the reader of the poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, what significance a persons life holds in the scope of densely populated planet. The poem explores the difficulties of discovering the relevance of life. The methods that helped Whitman grasp his own idea of the importance of life are defined with some simple yet insightful and convincing observations. By living under and for the standards of others, a person can never live a fulfilling life. Distingu...
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Leaves Of Grass View Of The World
1,694 wordsThrough the history of the United States there have been a countless numbers of poets. With them came an equal number of writing styles. Certainly one of the most unique poets to write lifes story through his own view of the world and with the ambition to do it was Walter Whitman. Greatly criticized by many readers of his work, Whitman was not a man to be deterred. Soon he would show the world that he had a voice, and that it spoke with a poets words. Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open ro...
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Similarities And Differences Whitman Poem
480 wordsDuring the time in American history known as the, several poets began to stray from the traditional methods of writing poetry. Among these poets were Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. While these writers led drastically different lifestyles and had drastically different styles of writing, the messages they presented through their writing were often surprisingly similar. Whitman's poem Song of Myself, No. 6 and Dickinson's poem This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies are examples of pieces which...
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