Compare And Contrast Longfellow And Dickinson

The poem “Memories” by Henry Wadsworth LongFellow and “The Lapse of Time” by William Cullen Bryant have comparing and contrasting context, structures, ideas, themes, and rhyme schemes. “Memories” is a poem that is giving details on a man who is growing of age and is reliving the past and the memories it carried. “The Lapse of Time” is similar to that poem since there is another man who is getting old and is also remembering the memories from his live when he was younger. Both poems have a relationship of showing time passing by and an example is from“The Lapse of Time”, which is, "the speed with which our moments fly;" (the lapse of time). That quote represents the man and his feelings towards him aging.

Every good author knows that being able to paint a picture in a reader’s head is one of the most important parts of composition. But, does the reader always get the image the author is trying to portray? Let’s first start with, what is imagery? Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. This could be painting a scene in a reader’s mind, or it could be engaging all the senses to give the reader every detail of what the character is going through. Two authors that seem to effortlessly compose works with imagery are Emily Dickinson and James Greenleaf Whittier. Emily Dickinson and James Greenleaf Whittier both articulated imagery masterfully in their work. Dickinson showed this in ‘Success Is Counted Sweetest,’ and Whittier in ‘Snowbound.’Dickinson’s imagery is more sensory than Whittier’s, which is more visual. The reader can see this when comparing their poems. Dickinson’s last stanza of ‘Success Is Counted Sweetest,’ makes the image described vivid, raising hairs on the readers neck. “As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear, The distant strains of triumph, Break, agonized and clear.” This stanza shows that this defeated soldier is tortured by the sounds of the victory parade, even as he lies dying on the battlefield. But, he knows what victory is in its entirety, because you must be totally denied something before you can truly appreciate what it is. This is much more sensory than Whittier’s lines from ‘Snowbound,’ which is more visual. “All day the gusty north wind

Frederick Douglass, nor Mark Twain didn’t have the life that a person now would want. Frederick Douglas was born in Maryland. He grew up without a mother or father, he was born into slavery. His birthday is unknown till this day, since back then they didn’t really care what time or day a black person was born. He at first grew up living with my grandmother. At a young age he was taken away and was assigned to work in a plantation, the master there could've been his father. He was mistreated badly and the living conditions were horrible. Later, he was sent to Baltimore, where he was kind of excited to go there and forget what he lived back home. He also tried escaping from slavery twice before he actually escaped. He died on February 20, 1895. In the other hand Mark Twain, or Samuel L. Clemens, born on November 30, 1835. He had a lot of jobs such as a storekeeper, a judge, land speculator. He wanted to be rich but unfortunately he wasn’t able to. He lived in Hannibal since he was 4 to the age of 17. When his father died he had to make money for his family so he started to work more and more, he began learning how to pilot a steamboat, which he liked because it made him quite the buck. He died on April 21, 1910. Some similarities between these two is that they both wrote good stories, and used some personal experiences in them. Twain wrote a lot of different stories, they were good. Twain focused more on letting the overall meaning of his stories get to the reader's emotions,

The nineteenth century produced many esteemed authors, including Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman who became two of Americas most popular poets. While vastly different in style and personality, both Dickinson and Whitman relate to many people on an emotional level through their poetry, even in the twenty-first century. The works of poetry by Dickinson and Whitman can be compared on levels of style and form and both writers composed beautiful verses of high quality. Through the following comparisons, it will become apparent how Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman influenced American literature and culture both in similar and diverse ways.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe are two of the biggest poets in American Literature from the 1800s. They had many things in common from their writings about death and sadness, because of their unfortunate losses in life, to the fact that they were both born in Massachusetts. They were also different in many ways. They were different in the way they looked at life and wrote about their experiences from it. While it is obvious they had many differences, they also had many things in common from their lives to their styles of writing making them amazing writers.

Death; termination of vital existence; passing away of the physical state. Dying comes along with a pool of emotions that writers have many times tried to explain. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two pioneer poets from the Romantic Era, that introduced new, freer styles of writing to modern poetry at the time. Both Whitman and Dickinson have similar ideas in their writing, but each has a unique touch of expression in their works. Both poets have portrayed death in their poetry as a relief, a salvation, or escape to a better place- another life. They have formulated death as a positive yet ambiguous state. In Dickinson's "Narrow Fellow in the Grass" and Whitman's "Wound-Dresser", there exists a link

The lives of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson have many similarities and differences. Here, we will focus on the similarities in their lives in order to bring to attention a correlation between Whitman's poem I Saw in Louisiana a Live-oak Growing and Dickinson's poem # 1510. Both poets wrote during the time of Romanticism, even though Whitman was Dickinson's senior by some eleven years. This however did not influence the way the writing styles of many of their poems coincided.

Since the emergence of written history, many fables regarding war have encompassed a significant portion of prosodic literature. Two of the foremost war poets of the 19th and 20th century—Emily Dickinson and Rupert Brooke—have both written about profound implications of war on society and also upon the human spirit albeit in two very different styles. The book, Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, theorizes through Allie, that Emily Dickinson was indubitably the superior war poet. Furthermore, when we analyze their works as well, we realize the invariable fact that Dickinson’s work delves into war with a much more holistic approach as well. She not only honours the soldiers for their valiant efforts, but also deftly weaves notions of liberty and civilian duty in regards to war as well as compared to Rupert Brooke who carried a romanticized imagery of martyrs within his poetry. In summation, Emily Dickinson is a superior war poet for her incisive analysis of death, and human nature in correspondence to war as compared to the patriotic salvos of Rupert Brooke’s poetry.

influenced the themes of her poems. Following his departure for the West Coast, Dickinson had

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson's works have numerous differences. Compared to Dickinson's short and seemingly simple poems, Whitman's are long and often complex. Both pioneered their own unique style of writing.

I'm Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson reminds me of the song, "You belong with me" by Taylor Swift. These two works speak of the author being behind the scenes in life. The writers are unnoticed by society and watch life from the back of the room. Content to watch life play out for others, without the inconvenience of social rules and etiquette. Swift proudly sings "She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers" (Swift). Dickinson and Swift, in reality, are nothing alike, Swift is a brash famous woman, while Dickenson was a recluse. This work is excitedly unemotional while imparting wisdom. Dickinson's poem playfully speaks of human's social fears through voice, conventional symbols, and stanza.

Poetry Comparison Dickinson uses capitalization and punctuation to set the mood and convey emotion in her writing. “My life closed twice before its close-” (Life) by Emily Dickinson compares death to separation from a loved one and wonders if immortality will be just as painful (Owens 358). The main themes of this poem are death and separation. “There’s a certain Slant of light-” (Slant) by Emily Dickinson is a poignant description of the feelings of loneliness and despair that come and go in people’s lives (Owens 358). The themes of this poem are loneliness and despair.

American authors Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, despite their many differences in style, genre, and lifestyle, have many of the same themes in their novels. The two of them helped introduce in their own ways the idea that a person does not have to do what everyone else does, be it religiously or socially, economically or politically, and they have the right to do as they wish without judgment. Most wouldn’t necessarily associate Thoreau and Dickinson with each other, but looking deeper into the hidden meanings behind their words, one can learn that they actually valued many of the same things, but expressed their values in different ways. For example, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson’s writing styles clash.

While both are famous trailblazers the two are vastly different. Incipiently, both poets Emily Dickinson and poet Walt Whitman were well known poets one is considered to be one of America's greatest and most original poets, taking definition as her provience and challenging the existing definitions of poetry and a poet’s work, Whitman on the other hand was considered to be a latter day successor to Homer, Shakespeare and Dante, creating monumental work through the chatted praises from body to soul, found beauty and ressourance in death. Both poets come from opposite backgrounds, and while they both share inspirational sources, they do so in distinctive ways. Analyzing two seperate poems from Emily Dickinson and Whitman, I will be comparing and contrasting the poems as I go through

     Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson were two of America’s most intriguing poets. They were both drawn to the transcendentalist movement which taught “unison of creation, the righteousness of humanity, and the preeminence of insight over logic and reason” (Woodberry 113). This movement also taught them to reject “religious authority” (Sherwood 66). By this declination of authority, they were able to express their individuality. It is through their acceptance of this individuality that will illustrate their ambiguities in their faith in God.