"Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson"
These two poets, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson, were transcendentalist poets and they, like Thoreau, wrote some poems on nature. I have chosen two to compare the poetry of the two, "Snow-Flakes" by Emily Dickinson and "The Snow-Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dickinson's poetry is mainly short, lyrical and light poetry while Emerson's poetry is more like a story being told. In both poems I have chosen, both poets paint a picture with their words of the snow being playful, however Dickinson keeps it light and playful when she writes,
"And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig –
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!"
Both Emerson and Dickinson give the snow personification
These two poets, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson, were transcendentalist poets and they, like Thoreau, wrote some poems on nature. I have chosen two to compare the poetry of the two, "Snow-Flakes" by Emily Dickinson and "The Snow-Storm" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dickinson's poetry is mainly short, lyrical and light poetry while Emerson's poetry is more like a story being told. In both poems I have chosen, both poets paint a picture with their words of the snow being playful, however Dickinson keeps it light and playful when she writes,
"And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig –
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!"
Both Emerson and Dickinson give the snow personification