About Myself Essay

Something I learned that was important about myself. Is when we went to D.C and we walked alot I thought I wasn't gonna be able to walk that much because I had uncomfortable shoes on. Now I know I should wear comfortable shoes on. If I don't think about how much were walking the pain will go away. I thought when we were in D.C. that I wasn't gonna be able to walk too much stairs when we went to every stop but the real one i thought I wasn't gonna be able to walk to the top was Abraham Lincoln…

Walt Whitman’s poem, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” which is written based on prior experience, presents two different views based around focusing on how people understand certain material. These perspectives are exhibited through a class lecture on astronomy. Whitman wrote this poem based on prior experience. The poem begins with the speaker sitting through an astronomy lecture taught by an astronomer. The lesson focuses on scientific facts and mathematical figures. The information is…

Over the eight week course period we were able to learn a lot about ourselves. The assigned tasks given were eye opening and revealing. I have discovered various different characteristics about myself that I was unaware I developed over the years. Therefore, I was able to learn a lot about myself. I learned what type of learner I was, who had the most influence on me, and what events has lead me to being the young lady I am today. One of the very first assignment we were assigned was to…

writing I didn 't consider myself to be a very strong writer. After completing the entire semester I feel that this class overall has helped me to improve my skill level as a writer. At the start of the semester my anxiety level was very high and I expected to struggle in this class. When I was in high school I had a strong dislike for writing and as a result I wasn 't very good at it.My experience in this class has been completely different and I have actually surprised myself with my overall…

I have grown a lot in English this year. I have excelled in reading, writing and language.English is probably my least favorite subject but I am good at it. I have realized that I shouldn’t set myself so low in English because I am good at it. I have found what I am good at and like to do, which helped me choose my classes for senior year. I began to enjoy English a lot more this year. The most interesting thing I have learned this year is that I’m a very good writer. Last year, my teacher…

It starts out in a conversation with a child asking what grass is. The line of answer is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves" (Whitman 2747). When we die, we are buried in the ground. We are returned, in a sense, from whence we came. God did form Adam, the first man, from the earth. William Cullen Bryant says in "Thanatopsis," "earth that nourishes thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again" (Bryant 2673). The earth has now become our home, our resting-place, our lap,…

be taught or learned, but only understood through experiences. Though the writing styles between these two poets are different, they still have a common theme. In Whitmans’ poem he is being lectured by a “learn’d astronomer” and Dickinson writes about being in a long and boring church service by…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are considered America’s greatest poets, and often remembered together because each revolutionized the genre, though they are starkly different. A Transcendentalist, Whitman felt joined to the world and writes in an expansive style that lists people and places to which he is united. Dickinson, whose views fit better with Dark Romantics, writes shorter poems with more conventional meter and rhyme schemes. As much as they differ in forms, they differ in their…

of repetition, imagery, and personification to give the reader a warm and fuzzy feeling. The first line in this poem emotes a powerful feeling. By writing about “making the continent indissoluble,” Whitman is creating a backdrop for the rest of the poem. It allows the reader to understand that the words that follow include colossal ideas about a nation of people that endures all things. Whitman emphasizes certain concepts in this poem by adding multiple instances of repetition. For example,…

Through the extensive storytelling form embedded in Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and How it feels to be colored me by Zora Neale Hurston, the common both works encompass a stylistic writing that draws imagery to circumstance. With comparable insight from a host of scholars, both of these short stories reveal a theme that examines the essence of human circumstance vs. the realities of Nature. While Walt Whitman directly exhibits the theme of man vs. nature through the story. He explicates…