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best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...
to punctuation for Ginsberg is to describe his howling. He writes that he has witnessed: "Ten years animal screams and suicides!...
accurately and appropriately described as of a "shared identity." However, that shared identity also has a level of uncertainty w...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...
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 ...
President Abraham Lincoln's assassination is examined within the context of this poem by Walt Whitman in five pages with imagery a...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
conscious mind. * _ The kinds of wishes that are fulfilled in dreams and why they are forbidden in consciousness. * _ Dreams and d...
each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...
himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...
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...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
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...
this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...
stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...
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...
stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...
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...
them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...
This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...
Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
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...
printers apprentice and then went on to work as a journeyman printer and a teacher (Books and Writers). Following that period of...