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

With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...

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

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 ...

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

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

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

film" (Johnson, 2006). The events leading up to the celebrated were no more monumental to the overall atmosphere than most any o...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...

was the spirit of Zen, as he drew his imagery from the "taproots" of the earth, the presence of a moment (Hassain, 1995). The "su...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Whitman and Dickinson In both of these poems, the tone of the poem is conversational. Each poet has preserved within the rhythm o...