Compare And Contrast Whitman And Dickinson

Romantic Era was a time of advanced changes in literary works. Whitman and Dickinson daringly changed the style of American Literature. They were the two most famous poets of their time period and with their unique word choices and style they both revolutionized poetry in America. Whitman was known as someone with a social and bold personality. This personality is reflected in his uplifting and positive writing. Unlike Whitman, Dickinson was very isolated and liked to keep to herself. She was more focused on writing for her own benefit then writing for others. Her writings were more dark and depressing. Both of their works are so different but were both so influential. Whitman and Dickinson come from two different backgrounds however, they both share inspired topics that each of them express extremely differently from each other using their own unique ways of writing. Whitman was a very social, outgoing person and always eager to be socially involved. He had an expressive and bold personality and was liked by many among society. Most of the content of his work were meant to be …show more content…
She was more seclusive then most and this seclusion very much influenced a lot of her writings. Most of her writings were very symbolic purposely because she did not write them for everyone to interpret but instead she wrote for her own personal purposes. Most of her writings are intense expressions on her own passions and opinions. She focuses on themes of life like in her poem "I Died for Beauty". Dickinson tends to bring out the darker side of things. She likes to talk about the truth of death and mortality and gets very focused and depressing. Her writing style is very short and seems somewhat simple, but more structured then Whitman's. In comparison to Whitman's style, Dickinson uses complex slant, regular rhymes, and carefully thought out written poems. You can see her use of slant rhyme in again "I Died for