Meg Whitman

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…

Mia Yi Ms. Beskenis/ Mrs. Manley Pd 2 13 May 2016 Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. As one of America’s most respected poet, Wallace Stevens’s rich and colorful life story, impact from early traditional writers and his parents, and his unique writing style all contributed to…

“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman is a poem about how different people from different backgrounds have one thing in common, being a hardworking American. In this poem, Whitman is using singing to metaphorically symbolize the sounds and the actions of laborers. It is a metaphorical tale in the sense that varied carols are being used to represent how America is made up of many individuals working together as one nation. The tone is an ecstatic display of everyday people working hard and…

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…

In this free verse poem, “A Song,” Walt Whitman is describing how great he believes America really is by using metaphors and by adding a touch 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…

feelings and views of fellow poet Walt Whitman, whether through a form of contempt or admiration, they both have drawn inspiration from Whitman's works and incorporated it into their own. Ezra Pound,, disliked or as Pound would say, “Detested” Whitman for quite sometime. Although he felt this way towards Whitman, in his poem “A Pact”, he goes on to say how Whitman “broke the new wood”, and that “now is a time for carving”. This shows that even though Pound disliked Whitman, he still recognized…