No this is the end! My boat is submerging and I’m going to be stuck in this lonely desert island. I could only save one book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson or the Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman? What a hard choice to pick especially since both books are so amazing and exceptional. Well my choices are limited, but sadly I would save the Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. I choose Whitman’s book because his writing is blunt, also Whitman’s topics are more intriguing, and his poems will be helpful considering it will help me to accept, but also understand death as a good thing so one would not fear it. Although both books are phenomenal the Leaves of Grass outweighs more The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by far.
…show more content…
Compared to Dickinson which are deliberating and humdrum. Whitman’s topics are more interesting to me because they seem more uplifting and fascinating. For instance in his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” he wrote “(Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, For you and the coffins all of you O death.)” I find this fascinating because he just doesn’t talk about the death of one person, but of everyone compared to the poems of Dickinson also overall in this poem he talks about heroes, patriotism, nature, war, and conflict those are some awesome topics that people will have fun or be willing to read. In Dickinson’s poem “This is my letter to the world” she wrote “This is my letter to the world that never wrote back…” This is the topics that I don’t find that amusing she talks about the letter that the world would of supposedly sent to her, but didn’t. Just reading this it wasn’t as intriguing as Whitman’s poems. That is why I would choose Whitman’s poems to save instead of …show more content…
In Whitman’s poems he is helpful in that matter because his poems involve death as a good and an accepting understanding thing. Opposed to the way Dickinson describes death as an intimidating and very horrifying thing. For example in Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” he wrote “…All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” Whitman describes death as a good thing that death for people could lead to a happier life. He expresses that those who are gone could be lucky because it could be better and different then what everyone supposes it would be. His perspective over death would help while my time here in this isolated desert Island. In comparison to Dickinson’s poem which are intimidating and horrifying. For instance in her poem “Because I could not stop for death” she wrote “Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality…We slowly drove – He knew no haste Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity –” In this poem she describes death as a ride on a carriage that goes on for eternity. Just reading this makes death intimidating and horrifying knowing that, death would be more frightening and would lead to people going insane by just the thought of
Compared to Dickinson which are deliberating and humdrum. Whitman’s topics are more interesting to me because they seem more uplifting and fascinating. For instance in his poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” he wrote “(Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses, O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies, But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first, Copious I break, I break the sprigs from the bushes, With loaded arms I come, pouring for you, For you and the coffins all of you O death.)” I find this fascinating because he just doesn’t talk about the death of one person, but of everyone compared to the poems of Dickinson also overall in this poem he talks about heroes, patriotism, nature, war, and conflict those are some awesome topics that people will have fun or be willing to read. In Dickinson’s poem “This is my letter to the world” she wrote “This is my letter to the world that never wrote back…” This is the topics that I don’t find that amusing she talks about the letter that the world would of supposedly sent to her, but didn’t. Just reading this it wasn’t as intriguing as Whitman’s poems. That is why I would choose Whitman’s poems to save instead of …show more content…
In Whitman’s poems he is helpful in that matter because his poems involve death as a good and an accepting understanding thing. Opposed to the way Dickinson describes death as an intimidating and very horrifying thing. For example in Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself” he wrote “…All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” Whitman describes death as a good thing that death for people could lead to a happier life. He expresses that those who are gone could be lucky because it could be better and different then what everyone supposes it would be. His perspective over death would help while my time here in this isolated desert Island. In comparison to Dickinson’s poem which are intimidating and horrifying. For instance in her poem “Because I could not stop for death” she wrote “Because I could not stop for Death –He kindly stopped for me –The Carriage held but just Ourselves –And Immortality…We slowly drove – He knew no haste Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity –” In this poem she describes death as a ride on a carriage that goes on for eternity. Just reading this makes death intimidating and horrifying knowing that, death would be more frightening and would lead to people going insane by just the thought of