Walt Whitman And Emily Dickinson Essay

In this essay I will be comparing famous poets, Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and comparing their themes, background experience in style which contain the literary elements with some examples of that are imagery and their format literary movements and I will analyze these two poets. What women and Emily Dickinson may seem very different, but are much the same and have some similarities as I will explain in the following essay. In many ways these two things were different in Walt Whitman's poetry there was more outgoing and simplistic poetry where in Emily Dickinson's poetry it was more complex and her themes portrayed I'm more depressed feeling, for example in Emily Dickinson's poetry it states from one of the stanzas of poem in 96 it states so huge, so hopeless to conceive as these that twice be filmed parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell this is one way to cancel demonstrates depression in her poetry and there are many other examples. Written poetry was more outgoing and was not as gloomy or dark import rain themes as Dickinson, Walt Whitman's themes were more outgoing and expressed his transcendentalist ideas and how he supported the radical democratic causes at his time of writing poetry before the …show more content…
Examples of Dickinson using her Puritan religion and her poetry is an old poem 303 and in the first stanza it says the soul selects her own society now this shows the normal Puritan idea or general Puritan idea of looking inward onto yourself and not worrying about what's around you looking inward at what God has