Essay Comparing Dickinson And Walt Whitman
COMPARISON BETWEEN WALT WHITMAN AND EMILY DICKINSON’S POETRY
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came from different religions, beliefs and even from different economic status, however both were considered as two of the most influential writers in American poetry. The great American poet Emily Dickinson was educated in an upper-class Puritan family with a strict sense of religion while Whitman was born in a working-class family that held beliefs related to Quakers. It does not matter where writers come from or which are their beliefs, but something that it is necessary to be a good writer is wit, knowledge and passion for writing. Even Dickinson and Whitman were different in some aspects of their lifestyle, they broke with the traditional …show more content…
(Leiter 378)
As Dickinson, Walt Whitman challenged the traditional idea of religion, collapsing distinctions between the secular and the spiritual. Whitman wrote about God, positioning himself in God’s place. In some of his poems he makes a comparison between himself and Jesus. Through his constant question about traditional beliefs thought that spirituality is not found in some higher being, it is found in each of us.
The treatment of death by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is clearly different. Dickinson is aware that death is something natural and she must not suffer for it while Whitman is challenging death in his poems as something malefic.
On the one hand, Dickinson’s fixation on death is based by her religious beliefs. Her treatment of death is presented as something that she accepts and which is also unavoidable; it is something that happens to everyone.
“Because I could not stop for Death” (Norton 52)
She seems not interested in discussing this subject, she just accept the death as a natural fact that every human being will live and she does not believe that death is something created particularly for her. In this case, death is just an inevitable experience that Emily Dickinson sees more pleasant than unpleasant experience. She has not the feeling to fight against death, she just thinks that die is being carried away by a natural
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came from different religions, beliefs and even from different economic status, however both were considered as two of the most influential writers in American poetry. The great American poet Emily Dickinson was educated in an upper-class Puritan family with a strict sense of religion while Whitman was born in a working-class family that held beliefs related to Quakers. It does not matter where writers come from or which are their beliefs, but something that it is necessary to be a good writer is wit, knowledge and passion for writing. Even Dickinson and Whitman were different in some aspects of their lifestyle, they broke with the traditional …show more content…
(Leiter 378)
As Dickinson, Walt Whitman challenged the traditional idea of religion, collapsing distinctions between the secular and the spiritual. Whitman wrote about God, positioning himself in God’s place. In some of his poems he makes a comparison between himself and Jesus. Through his constant question about traditional beliefs thought that spirituality is not found in some higher being, it is found in each of us.
The treatment of death by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is clearly different. Dickinson is aware that death is something natural and she must not suffer for it while Whitman is challenging death in his poems as something malefic.
On the one hand, Dickinson’s fixation on death is based by her religious beliefs. Her treatment of death is presented as something that she accepts and which is also unavoidable; it is something that happens to everyone.
“Because I could not stop for Death” (Norton 52)
She seems not interested in discussing this subject, she just accept the death as a natural fact that every human being will live and she does not believe that death is something created particularly for her. In this case, death is just an inevitable experience that Emily Dickinson sees more pleasant than unpleasant experience. She has not the feeling to fight against death, she just thinks that die is being carried away by a natural