Robert Frost And Walt Whitman Essay

Poetry has long been a way for people to convey emotion. Walt Whitman and Robert Frost are two poets that use their words to convey emotions. The poems may not seem like much because of what they are about, but each poem has a specific tone, situation,and influence. Each narrator is different and each theme is unique; expressing all the emotions needed. The differences between the four poems include the kind of person the narrator is, the setting, the theme, and the tone used. Everyone gets something different when they read poems. What a poems means to me is not the same as what it means to you. Something all the poems have in common is the narrators are all male, but something they all have that’s different is the narrators are all different types of people. To begin, in poem one “Song of myself” by Walt Whitman, the narrator is down to Earth, he wants to live life to the fullest, he is very hippyish, he is connected to the Earth. In the second poem “ A noiseless patient spider” also by Whitman, the narrator is patient and observant. Both the third and fourth poems were written by Robert Frost; the narrator in both is determined. In addition to his determination in the third one he is curious and in the fourth he is easygoing and …show more content…
The poem’s setting overlap a little bit by all of them being in open, wide spaces most likely taking place outside. The first is a farm in which the narrator acquired somehow, most likely through inheritance. The second is about a spider making a web somewhere big, quiet, and alone. The third poem is outside, probably sometime in the 1800’s. The narrator is surrounded by woods with vibrant, bright colors, he is not quite a wanderer but a traveler. The last poem is also in the woods, but surrounded by blankets of white snow and ice. Just like no two snowflakes are the same, the authors use the setting to differentiate the poems from each