Comparing Walt Whitman And Emily Dickinson's Poetry

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.

Whitman was able to change people’s views on life and was able to give people something that they wanted and were looking for in his creation of a new writing style. His writing about real life experiences connected him well with the common man, which is another aspect of the Romantic period. Whitman is also thought of as the “father of free verse.” He enjoyed using free verse because it could further distinguish him from other writers of the past, and of his time.

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

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.

Whitman does not leave much space for the readers’ own imagination while Dickinson chose her words so carefully so that the meaning of the poem comes across like she wants to. The last difference is the use of metric and rhyme in both poets’ work, there is no metric or rhyme in Whitman’s poetry, while this is clearly not the case with Dickinson. Both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are a part of American Romanticism but are at the same time completely

Dickinson’s poem " I felt a Funeral, in my Brain", is a prime example of complicity embodied by simple style and language. In this piece, Dickinson chronicles psychic fall. The use of many different devices such as sound, repetition, and metaphors, all help to develop the theme of the poem.

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.

While both Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman wrote amazing poetry about the nature of relationships between humans, their styles of writing about it could not differ more. Their subject matters vary greatly from one another. Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman may write about completely different situations and compose their pieces in contrasting ways, but their poetry still contains many similarities. Walt wrote about sensual parts of relationships. Most of the time, he was hopeless and defeated.

Emily Dickinson is the creator of some of the most famous works in American poetry. Throughout the 1800s, the author dedicated her life to poetry. She used metaphors in an advanced way and displayed power through her unique use of diction. Emily’s immense power with words derived from her determination. Dickinson’s determination to achieve individuality and power is exemplified through her complex poetry and derived from the events that occurred in her life.

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.

Unlike other poets Emily Dickinson was a poet that liked to express her ideas and emotions of things that had interested her. In each of her poems some of the similarities that you can see that she uses a lot of the dashes between each lines to demonstrate a short pause. Another thing that Emily Dickinson does in her poems is that in the lines they all have an end rhyme to it whether the first line would rhyme with the third line or the second line would rhyme with the fourth line. The poet Emily Dickinson conveys this idea of death, love and the identity of oneself through the following poetic devices of meter, personification and assonance.

Emily Dickinson uses personification as a tool to add depth to her poem, “ Because I

Even though Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman had a lot of differences in the way they wrote poetry, they had some similarities between them. Whitman uses repetition and free-verse while Dickinson uses slant rhyme, imagery and metaphor and both use many others along with these. This is just one example of the many differences they share. Emily Dickinson was educated at local schools and at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. After a trip she took to Washington and Philadelphia in 1855 she settled down into Amherst, her hometown, and never left there except for her eye appointments. Except for seven verses, her poems went unpublished throughout her lifetime. Walt Whitman fell in love with writing at the age of twelve. He worked as

Emily Dickinson is one of the most interesting female poets of the nineteenth century. Every author has unique characteristics about him/her that make one poet different from another, but what cause Emily Dickinson to be so unique are not only the words she writes, but how she writes them. Her style of writing is in a category of its own. To understand how and why she writes the way she does, her background has to be brought into perspective. Every poet has inspiration, negative or positive, that contributes not only to the content of the writing itself, but the actual form of writing the author uses to express his/her personal talents. Emily Dickinson is no different. Her childhood and adult experiences and culture form