Charles Whitman

Let go- finished Good morning/ afternoon thank you for having me here to celebrate NAIDOC week with you all. Today I will be analyzing the poem “Let Go” by Jack Davis. Jack Davis was an Indigenous poet and activist. He was born in a small town of Yarloop in western Australia. Jack Davis uses poetry to provide a voice that helps us understand the culture that he lives in and his true identity. In order to prove the thesis statement, I will discuss the theme, poetic devices, and Jack Davis’s use…

Robert Frost's "Design" is a two stanza poem that paints a sinister scene that is unfolding in nature. At the dawn of morning, there is a "dimpled spider, fat and white, on a white heal-all holding up a moth." The moth is holding onto this white flower called the heal-all trying to escape the spider but death is surely to come. The white heal all flower is regarded as a safe haven or refuge with the power to heal. How ironic to die on a flower with medicinal capabilities. Frost uses these…

William Cullen Bryant's poem, “The Prairies,” expresses the beauty he first encounters of America's prairies and contrasts the beautiful and abundant image of an alive nature; “And fresh as the young earth, ere man had sinned/ The Prairies. I behold them for the first,” with the grim inevitability of death within the prairie. But from what death takes nature always gives back even when man has made it difficult to continue (495-497). Through juxtaposed images of life and death; Bryant is able to…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two writers during the late 19th and early 20th century. They are often referred to the founders of American poetry. Both writers have many similarities and differences from each other, but neither of them can be imitated through their style. They have influenced many during and long after the Romantic era of literature. A common theme through each of their following poems is that some aspects of nature cannot be taught or learned, but only understood through…

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is known as one of the greatest poets in American history. His poetry was a significant trend of words and emotions which is why he is known as the father of free verse. Either published or not, Whitman had written thousands of poems and work in his life time. His most famous collection of poems was Leaves of Grass. He was a humanist and learned realism and transcendentalism at schools. Whitman didn’t just write poems, he was an essayist and journalist too and his…

note 3 incidents you find particularly surprising, interesting, or baffling. Discuss. I was surprised that he quit school, but was still very successful. He was also fired or quit his job editing the Daily Eagle. His life had many ups and downs. Whitman was very depressed from everything going on. Something interesting was that he denied a marriage proposal, which could’ve been because he was depressed. He had a paralytic stroke twice in his life and then dies of pneumonia. You could say his…

Many times in the poems, there were verses symbolizing either his strength or his powers. “The challenge of Thor” is a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow was an American poet who was known for doing many great things. One of the things he did was translate Dante Alighieri's “Divine Comedy” to english. He also was the writer of “Paul Revere's Ride” and ‘The song of Hiawatha”. In “The challenge of Thor”, Longfellow uses a strong and Powerful tone. It is a free verse poem.…

The poem “Oh Me! Oh Life!” by Walt Whitman, is where he questions about life and existence. But, he questions his own purpose for life and wonders why its so cruel. He wants people to just to be alive and live their life fully. Whitman encourages his readers to live now, experience the world, and enjoy living. In the beginning of the poem, Whitman started out by making the poem represent hopelessness. “Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, … Answer. That…

you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning”, this would be shocking to Whitman, because the amount of voices praising Whitman’s works has grown exponentially since his death. Walt Whitman’s works have gone on an intriguing journey from the time that they were first published to the current era. However, as time has passed Whitman has become to be known as a celebrated and innovative poet. Whitman versatility is seen by the thoughts of death, desolation of hearts, and suffering in…

this belief between fellow man. Encompassed in the themes in Song of Myself, Whitman drives this belief into the hearts and minds of the American people and the world. At times latent and at other obvious, Whitman uses individualism and democracy, transcendentalism, and unity of nature and death to influence…