Charles Whitman

One such example is a poet by the name of Walt Whitman, whose voice travels and echoes in the American mind as casually as a song plays on the radio. Whitman’s style and inherent ability to capture a moment in words, as if the reader were watching a film or staring at a photograph, is uncanny, and his innate ability to create a scenario in which the reader feels both comfortable and familiar is eerily perfect. By using a humanist perspective,…

Morenike Ibidapo Design by Robert Frost is a poem that seems to be describing a moment in time, when one is observing a spider on a heal-all, with a moth caught in the spider’s web. There is not much action in the poem, in fact, the only action taking place is the speaker looking at this scene in nature. It seems that through this observation, Frost is saying that some grand design may be responsible for creating this scene in nature. In this poem, Frost uses a series of metaphors and an…

Zukofsky’s great love for music as an art form to experiment with shows up as interweaving themes in his work. Consider this passage from the first chapter of his great poem “A”: “Music leaving no traces, Not dying, and leaving no traces.” (“A” 6) Zukofsky aims to explain the process of a scientific recording, through the processes of objective statements made in his work. On the other side of the coin lies creation, the ability to produce something tangible from the mere idea of it. On the…

One of the most time tested pieces of culture, literature reflects the culture of its writers and their nation. Within literary works of The Wild Honeysuckle and The Indian Burial Ground by Philip Freneau, Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666 by Anne Bradstreet, and To a waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant can be seen the developing character of being an American. Many of these poems show less to be desired traits found in everyday life. Within the pages of these poems can be…

The Nutritional Twins: Health and Beauty The renowned German poet, Heinrich Heine, once stated: The only beauty I know is health. And that statement is as true today as it was centuries ago. There is a definite connection between health and beauty. If you care for the health of your body, it will return the favor with an inner and outer beauty. Your natural beauty is a gift from your parents, keeping yourself healthy is a gift that you give yourself. While you cannot change your DNA, you…

part of the scheme” (Whitman. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.). Walt Whitman was a graceful, yet outlaw poet that pushed the boundaries ink and paper. Whitman’s works were a journey of finding self through the natural world and his relation to the world, along with cleaver wording that test the limits of his time. He asked questions that particularly did not coincide with the time he was writing in, but resinate with anyone who hums through one of his poems. A few works where Whitman really explores…

Edvard Grieg Historie From the words of Hans Christian Andersen, “Where words fail, music speaks”. Music is a universal language shared between every human on Earth. Since the beginning of time, music has been used as a form of expressing a person’s feelings. Throughout the years, music has evolved and is still currently changing. However, the sound and structure are changed through big influences in the musical world. This is how music develops a new shape and sound. For the Romantic…

Myself” by Walt Whitman set a clear tone for much of his work. One of the main focuses during Walt Whitman’s lifetime in the nineteenth century was put on humans and their minimally understood traits. As one of the few lead poets of his time, Whitman was well practiced in writing about major topics; additionally, promoting inquiry and recognizing not often expressed benefits, notably, his works regarding human traits. Using anaphora, rhetorical devices, diction, and imagery, Whitman created the…

American. In “Kira-Kira,” by Cynthia Kadohata and in “I Hear America Singing,” by Walt Whitman, the writers both explain what they think it means to be an American. They way that these writers explain what this can be both compared and contrasted. To Cynthia Kadohata, being an American means that you should love and appreciate your country. You should be happy that you are able to live in America. To Walt Whitman, being an American means that you are able to be diverse and be happy at the same…

Walt Whitman was an American poet and journalist who combined views of transcendentalism and realism into his works. He is often titled as the father of free verse, despite not being the one who created it. He was born on May 31, 1819, near Huntington, New York. Whitman was twelve when he started to learn the printer’s trade and begin to love the written word. Whitman had multiple jobs over the course of his life, from volunteer nurse during the Civil War, to a teacher, to a journalist. Whitman…