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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...
me leading wherever I choose. Out of the Cradle is a much slower-moving poem. It begins with the poet recalling a childhood ...
In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...
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...
much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
nearly twenty years without complaint. Should that not account for something? As his pain intensifies, Ivan Ilych begins feeling...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
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...
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...
Thomas Eakins: A Friendship of Artistic Gain). In fact, this particular painting is clearly a representation of a scene in Whitman...
spiritual aspect, which is an illustration that many spiritual individuals can relate to in present day America. Freedom, in Whi...
or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...
disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...
for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...
ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...
are structured in the form of questions, which are subsequently answered throughout the poem (Holloway 147-148). His declaration ...
With the plain-speaking simplicity that was his trademark, Whitman constructed this poem in such a rhythmic way that it could be s...
the natural surroundings, with the death of a powerful man. More often than not we, as human beings, keep memories of such powerfu...
Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...
In 5 pages this paper examines the modern poetry contributions of uniquely American poet Walt Whitman. There are 6 sources cited ...
This paper discusses how his American vision is expressed by Walt Whitman in 'Song of Myself' in five pages. There are no other s...
to Leaves of Grass-certainly more perfect as a work of art, being adjusted in all its proportions . . . But I am perhaps mainly sa...
This paper compares and contrasts the universe and life outlook featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman in six pages. There a...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the images featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman. There are no other sources...
In six pages this paper discuses how the narrator and the speaking eye impact the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There ar...
feeling his relationship with all other Americans. Uniquely American Most of Whitmans poetry illustrates what can be accu...
now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...