On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner He is lean and sinewy‚ with muscular He is thinly clothed – he leans forward as he runs With lightly closed fists‚ and arms partially rais’d On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; (visual imagery). It depicts a professional runner who tries through the flat land on his run‚ but it is also seen that it focuses on the middle or lower class of people made up of common laborers. The "flat land" that he is running across can depict the poet’s birthplace
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Analysis of Imagery "Beat! Beat! Drums!" The Civil War had a major impact on the people of America through the years of 1861 to 1865. Walt Whitman‚ a poet and Northerner of this time‚ wanted to capture the people’s reactions of the war after finding out it was not going to end as quickly as they had anticipated. Whitman illustrated how the people‚ especially Northerners‚ changed throughout this conflict; he achieved this by using countless images in his poem‚ "Beat! Beat! Drums!" The main focus
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Whitman’s Poetry Walt Whitman will remain as a well-known‚ superb poet. Clarence Brown stated‚ the words of someone speaking on Walt Whitman‚ “He is the only one of the conventionally recognized American poets who is worth reading” (37). Walt Whitman is a poet that writes with purpose. His poetry seems to attempt to teach the more desirable behavior and traits for Americans. It depicts the ideal American democrat‚ peace maker‚ and a well-rounded person‚ in general. Not that Walt Whitman is only about
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BAM! Is what the world did in nineteenth century when the poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman came into the world? Dickinson and Whitman are two amazing poets of the nineteenth century. Emily Dickinson wrote poetry of great power; but lived a life of simplicity and seclusion. She questioned the nature of death and immortality‚ with times of repetitive quality. However Walt Whitman was part of the transcendentalism and realism‚ incorporating both views in his poems. But the compare in many was
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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
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literature is a “faithful and objective mirror of life”. Recreating life in the real‚ life as it was. Mark Twain and Walt Whitman each revealed the nature of life’s journey as the ordinary human faced it. Twain and Whitman strove for spiritual knowledge as they journeyed through life‚ each seeking to understand the aspects of their own spirituality. “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman and “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain mirrored life through the aspect of spirituality. They both were looking for a way
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Who were Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman exactly? In simple terms they were some of the founders of a uniquely American style of poetry. While their lives only spanned the last eight decades of the nineteenth century‚ their influence on literature has spanned centuries. They became the iconic writers because of their blatant disregard for previous rules of poetry. Dickinson and Whitman’s poems were unique to them and them alone. Besides being unique during their time‚ their works give insight into
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Whitman College has announced that they have dropped missionary as its mascot name last week‚ and are trying to find a new name. The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin said that the "Fighting Missionary" as mascot‚ which honored two murdered missionaries‚ was not "appropriate" for the college. The college had taken the decision after surveying 18‚000 alumni and current students‚ out of which 62 percent said that they thought missionary was not appropriate for college. Another news release by the Whitman
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they are from completely different eras. Each writer has a unique style of writing. Walt Whitman and Robert Frost were poets of differences and similarities. Each poet had a different style of writing. However‚ they both want to make that emotional connection to the reader. Whitman and Frost used nature as an opportunity in their poems to allow the reader to better interpolate the message of the poem. Walt Whitman does not portray structure throughout his writing. He writes in a free-verse form
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history was beginning his world changing works. Walt Whitman wrote over two hundred-eighty poems‚ some of which are yet to be discovered. Before his poetry‚ Whitman lived in a small home on Long Island here he grew up with his eight siblings‚ four of whom were disturbed or psychotic. The father was unheard of and the mother‚ unable to fend for the entire family‚ so at a young age Walt became the true father of his family (Bloom 159). Walt Whitman threaded his poetry with his political beliefs‚ poetic
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