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Symbolism and Meaning in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Part forty seven is the focus of this poetic explication consisting of six pages in which symbolism uses by the poet are the prima...

Walt Whitman and the Influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In six pages the influence of Emerson upon Whitman's poetry is examined with the primary focus being 'Song of Myself' and poetic l...

World and Self in Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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

'Howl' by Allen Ginsberg and Themes of Anger and Compassion

occasionally disjointed, seemingly lacking in traditional sentence structure. This technique is certainly evident in "Howl," but ...

'Song' by Allen Ginsberg, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Love

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

Longfellow, Whitman and Dickinson

A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...

Allen Ginsberg's Life and Poetic Art

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

Hating Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'America'

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

Socrates' Observation 'The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living'

only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

Walt Whitman's Influence on D.H. Lawrence

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

On the Beach at Night by Walt Whitman

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

Religion and Sex Views of Walt Whitman

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...

Human Nature and the Poetry of Walt Whitman

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

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's and Walt Whitman's Transcendentalism

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass Preface

mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...

Life and Works of Walt Whitman

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

Birds in Literature

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

Two of Walt Whitman's Works Compared

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...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

Slapstick Masters Woody Allen and Charles Chaplin

machine. The idea is that this feeding machine will cut down on the time needed for lunch breaks and, thereby, make the factory mo...

Langston Hughes's 'I Too' and Walt Whitman's 'I Hear America Singing' Poetry Comparison

each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...

'Beat Generation' Writers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady

In eighteen pages this paper examines the American 'Beat Generation' literary movement popular during the 1950s in a consideration...

Beat Generation Poetry of Bob Kaufman

In eight pages Bob Kaufman and his poetry are examined and despite the fact that he was the least well known of all the 'Beat' poe...

Contemporary Influence of the Beat Generation

In 10 pages this paper examines the works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in an assessment of the 1950s...

Writers of the Beat Generation

Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac are discussed in the context of this paper that focuses on the beat generation. Vario...

E.M. Forster's Novel A Passage to India and Walt Whitman's Poem 'Passage to India' Analyzed

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

Beat Generation Poets Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Allen Ginsberg

In 7 pages an overview of these 3 'Beat Generation' poets and their influence are presented. There are 5 sources are cited in the...