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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...
the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
A 5 page paper which examines one poem from Longfellow, Whitman, and Dickinson. The poems examined are The poets, and their poems,...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
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...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...
12, Whitman was indoctrinated in the printers trade (AAP). It was at this time that he fell in love with words, and began to read ...
An analysis of this poem and what it reveals about the life and poetry of Walt Whitman is presented in five pages. Attached are 4...
This paper compares and contrasts the universe and life outlook featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman in six pages. There a...
Objectification of humans is the focus of this poetic analysis of 'Pruned Tree' by Howard Moss, 'The Work Box' by Thomas Hardy and...
In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...
In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...
In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...
the same as every other human being; there is really no other way to interpret the line "For every atom belonging to me as good be...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
avails not, time nor place - distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations he...
each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...