Meg Whitman

America in Reality “ Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes is a poem which is similar to Walt Whitman’s “ I hear American Singing”, Whitman is confident about America’s democratic opportunity. However, Hughes is writing from a black man’s perception, thus less optimistic about what America has been or will be. Hughes’s has his poem organized with rhyme, tone, rhetorical questions, and more unified with repeated anaphora. Connotation is used in the poem which evokes the…

The American voice echoes through its literature with the power to change established ideas and challenge stereotypes. Blending together commentary and social insight by expressing feelings and experiences of its people. Writers helping a nation come to terms with modern developments by engaging political and social issues in their publications. Herman Melville was one of those voices when he created a moral story identifying the results of economic progress as it consumes the democratic…

Walt Whitman, born in 1819, is profoundly known for his later start in poetry. His works primarily focus on his personal experience within the Civil War. His two works deeply reflect his time spent as a nurse for the Union side of the war. Although one being fiction and the other nonfiction, Whitman is capable of getting his tone and ideas across to the reader in both The Artilleryman’s Vision and Letter to His Mother. Both works and their depictions articulate the Civil War experience through…

lives and works of both Walt Whitman and Claude McKay, we understand how America, the same country, can be a country to one where only love, law, and freedom prevails and to another it is full of hate and racism. By looking at the lives of these poets, we can get a better understanding of their opinion about America. Whitman is regarded as one of America’s…

Walter Whitman, more commonly known, as Walt Whitman, was one of America’s most important, significant, and influential poets of the nineteenth century. Walt Whitman wrote about the common American person throughout his writing, while being very controversial. Although, his writing did not appeal to everyone, it certainly made its mark on the history of poetic writing in the nation of America. He celebrated democracy, nature, and love. His monumental works praise the body parallel to the soul.…

that war in its’ symbolic form of beating drums and bugles blowing creates stress and depression in the lives of the simple people in the nation, such as farmers who are not directly connected to the war, but still suffer the consequences of it (Whitman 6). The novel approaches the idea of disrupting normality by subtly weaving it in with the major plot of Frederic’s war experiences and his love affair with Catherine by…

Walt Whitman is regarded as one of the greatest American writers in history. His work during the Civil War influenced almost every writer that came after him. Despite Whitman being one of the most influential writers in American history, he himself was greatly influenced by his surroundings and experiences, the most influential of which was his experience in the Civil War, another big influence was his feelings and relationship with Abraham Lincoln, as well as his childhood which bought his…

American based poet, Galway Kinnell was born in the year 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. Growing up Kinnell was a very shy and introverted child who often turned to American literature and poetry to escape daily life (Poetry Foundation). Kinnell, who spent two years in the United States Navy then went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree from The University of Rochester. During the times of when he was most active writing poetry was during and…

The Phantom of Love Love, an endless phenomenon that lasts even after death, entwines itself into a being at the first sign of life. Whitman and Dickinson, two famous poets of the 19th century, have similar views on the love of a child to its mother, the love of a friend, and the love of a spouse always being omnipresent and blossoming within oneself. These famous poets portray the common ideal of omnipresent love through the works labeled as “Love is anterior to life” and “As if a Phantom…

but let it produce joy." (Whitman, Leaves of Grass). This quote in Whitman 's most famous work is the epitome of his beliefs and what he showed through his many works of poetry. His life had a lasting impact on society. He changed the perception of poetry and ultimately the views on homosexuality. Walt Whitman, considered to be the most important American poet of the 19th century, impacted the world of poetry with his unique writing style and newly ushered free verse. Whitman modernized the way…