WALT WHITMAN AND EMILY DICKINSON

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Comparison between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Discussion

Emily Dickinson has a very distinct style of poetry. She uses slant line (unfinished thoughts) which she developed in this poem, if you were coming in the fall. She also uses one of her classic themes, love. The theme love by itself is much too simple; however, here she adopts the more developed theme of hope of romantic fulfillment. Basically it is love between two people (I assume people.) The mood of the poem is very hopeful, with the author offering to throw away time just to be with the lover. She compares the summer with flies, and life with an orange rind. This is a daring simile, however, powerful. Emily Dickinson stuck to her standard style of poetry, theme and mood all traditional to her. It is another one of her 1776 famous poems.

Throughout annals publications has been shaped by humanity and broken by authors. Literature has given cultures the ability to tell a story. One of the most important sections of literature is the art form known as poetry. Those two poets were Emily Dickinson, and Walter Whitman. Both would lead totally different lives; however they would break down the barriers society had set on poetry, and change the way people read it.

On May 3rd, 1819, Walter Whitman was born to an English and Dutch family in Long Island. With eight other brothers and sisters, he grew up in a crowded house with not a whole lot of money. He stopped attending school at age eleven, and became an office boy and printers assistant. Despite not being a scholar, Walt Whitman had an excellent grasp on the English language.

In 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. She lived the above average life of a girl, her father being a congressman. Emily Dickinson attended a boarding school where she received a quality education. She was considered a mourner among children, and a lover. She fell in love with two people during her life, one married lawyer, the other was a pastor. Her father took her to New York with him to get her away from the two men. When she returned home, she discovered that the lawyer had died, so she withdrew from society, staying in the house where she wrote some of the greatest masterpieces ever.

The two authors had totally ...