Arlington Robinson And Walt Whitman's Poetry

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With moments of joy comes times of sorrow, along with these polarized emotions comes celebration of new life which makes losing life easier to understand. Though this understanding comes simply, the need to explore thoughts of death still lingers. For many poets this fixation of where they will go to at a natural time undetermined by themselves fueled the writing of many poems indulging in the thoughts revolving around their soul and its journey. While in the other hand a group of poets took a pantheist view towards the abrupt ending of our lives, projecting that once we die we return to that we came from. Dickinson wrote of the experience of death during life and other poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson and Walt Whitman wrote about the

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