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    Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman is a meditative poem combining his religious and political ideals. In Whitman’s poetry, symbolism and sermons are used to present important subjects. With the author’s persona, the poem captures the unique blend of national confidence and fear for the future by using grass, a symbol of democracy which grows everywhere. Many historical events were occurring during the period of his life. The imminent Civil War…

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    Three Unique Writers Reforming Worldview “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass” (Whitman, v. 1-5). For many eras, authors and poets, like Walt Whitman have attempted to capture what it means to be an individual as a universal theme, and what it means to be an American. Multitudes of writers have come close to…

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    as the prophet. He was born a Quaker, (Religious Society of Friends)—a Christian movement which professes the priesthood of all believers. He did not follow this religion as an adult. According to his doctrine, “No restrictions whatever should be placed upon an individual’s religious convictions.” In Song of Myself #48, in the first Stanza: “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” shows how he does not…

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    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…

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    blacks, and suddenly saw Rice, bought that as a black image” (Riggs 1987). A modern-day example of the sambo can be seen in the comedian and actor, Kenan Thompson. Since Thompson, was a child he played sambo like characters on the Nickelodeon show “All That”. He also had his own show entitled Kenan and Kel in which the boys would get caught up in sticky situations. Furthermore, through many of his characters he is always seen happy or laughing, sometimes even dancing, on television. This is…

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    peace and all people have equal rights. In this story it tells us about how life was like in the view of an African American family. On a breezy summer day down in Memphis,Tennessee Katherine, Danny, her father, and Amelia, her mother were taking a walk. Katherine saw her best friend Amanda. Amanda was with her parents too, just like Katherine.They wanted to play but there parents said “No!” This confused Amanda and Katherine and they asked their parents why?…

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    Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman celebrates life and how people can become one with nature. Whitman shows how happy life can be if you take the world and look at its beauty. Whitman’s poem takes readers through many settings, time points and viewpoints. While the setting for the love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock written by T.S Eliot is about a middle-aged man in a big dirty city who views life as though it has nothing to offer but boredom, anxiety, and death. Prufrock shows life can be…

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    sprout shows there really is no death" (Whitman 2747). "All goes onward and outward and nothing collapses" (Whitman 2748). This serves to justify Whitman's belief that people and nature are connected…

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    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…

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    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…

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