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

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

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

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

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

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

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

well have acknowledged that mankind stands alone in his endless quest for more, a concept behind the reason society is its own opp...

In thirteen pages this paper discusses the romantic aspects of science and poetry in a consideration of the works by poets includi...

In five pages Emerson's 'The Poet' essay is used to evaluate the writings of Walt Whitman. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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 five pages this paper discusses the untraditional structural unity that is present in the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman...

occupation or condition, unworthy of being saluted in his poetry. Although he was relatively successful in terms of worldly succe...

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

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...

tells his readers to "undrape," because, to him, no one is guilty of shame or worthy of being discarded (line 145). Everyone and e...

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

much that is god-like in human beings. It is humanity hes celebrating. Kuebrich believes "that Whitmans work is not only religio...

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

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 ...

now" (Whitman, 2005). Clearly, this illustrates his belief that heaven and hell are right here on earth, which was a very controv...

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...

Then writer looks at a 2003 article written by Mearsheimer and Walt in the run up to the war. The arguments of the article arguing...

Walt Whitman contended that a city absorbs a person as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Five sources are listed in this four ...

and regular stress would at first strike his reader with incredulous amazement. But he was hardly prepared for the storm of abuse ...

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

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

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