Marcus Whitman

"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul", Walt Whitman. The Transcendentalist Challenge featured activities that would challenge the student to move outside of their comfort zones and change their view of the outside world by incorporating Transcendentalist themes. I was forced outside of my comfort zone. My view of the world and our everyday lives have changed because of the Transcendentalist Challenge. I now believe that we should try our best to live minimally

An old man from a small town dies. A funeral is held at his local church and the whole town comes to pay respects. Looking around the room, there are all ages of people present. One of these people is a young boy, sitting in the back with his mother. The old man had given the boy a coat during the winter that his mother was out of her job. They had only seen the man that one time and yet, they felt the need to come to the funeral. Sitting across the aisle from the boy is a middle-aged woman. She

To be an individual it means to be one person without having a society to manipulate or shape someone into someone that person doesn’t want to be or doesn’t fit the way they are. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Song of Myself and What we fought for come together to express the concept of individualism/ self-worth and equality while at the same time illustrating these ideas through first-hand accounts and historical time frames. At the time these stories were written they were able to give

purpose is to criticize the racism, slavery, and the hypocrisy that existed in the white “civilized” society in order to enact social change. Walt Whitman portrays in his free verse poem “ Song Of Myself” from the collection Leaves Of Grass published in 1855 that everyone in the universe has a purpose and that purpose is to be a part of nature. Whitman might express the idea to Twain that everyone in the pre-Civil War era is a part of nature and find solutions from it; therefore everyone has to value

The Growth of “Petals of Transience” In the Hamasoor edition, it is presented in a way that represents Walt Whitman, but it is different by representing I, Sheilan Hamasoor, as an individual. Before I started this project, I didn’t fully grasp the underlying concept of Walt Whitman himself and his poetry entirely. With all of his poems that he has written in Leaves of Grass, it was difficult to find a common theme and identify what each individual poem was about. I grasped a general concept

between Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman- a connection Whitman believed only he possessed. At first glance the poem is a relatively short (especially for Whitman) three stanza poem. What makes this poem stand out from other Whitman poems is its rhyme and meter. It steers away from his “traditional” free verse and instead uses primarily iambic meter, although the number of feet in each line varies (Hochman). Some literary critics have expressed disdain that Whitman wrote a poem in such a manner, with

the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and

Edward Estlin Cummings, better known as E.E. Cummings was an American poet whose experimentation lead to innovative, unique pieces of literature. Involving “language of the streets” as well as “eccentric punctuation and phrases” allowed him to develop his own personal style which differed greatly from the traditional style of poetry (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica 1). Known for his concise and sparing works of literature, Cummings’ recognizable style is displayed in his works not only in

Anne Dudley Bradstreet is one of the most widely recognized North American poets. She was the first in the British colonies to have poetry published and the first puritan figure in America. Although Anne Dudley Bradstreet did not attend school, she received an excellent education from her father. She became cultured in several languages, and was said to spend many hours reading by herself. At 16 she married her childhood sweetheart Simon Bradstreet. Anne and Simon both migrated to America where they

Whitman is one of America's most acclaimed poets. He has written many free verse pieces, which were incredibly modern for his time. Some even consider him to be the father of free verse. He challenged the American's way of thinking in his day, and in ours. He openly expressed his ideas, he didn't want to conform to society, he wanted to challenge it. Whitman influenced even other remarkable Americans, one of them was Langston Hughes. Hughes was born nearly 100 years after Whitman, but he knew the