Walt Whitman

of wharves and stores-city of tall facades of marble and iron! Proud and passionate city! mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!" It is always good to change things up. The quote should be changed, but it should still come from the famous words of Walt Whitman. As everyone knows New York City is one of the most competitive places on earth. You need to be on your A game or you are dead in the water. The quote should be related competition and victory. The quote should be from Whitman’s poem…

Walt Whitman wasn’t one of my favorite poets, just because he poems did not speak to me as did Emily Dickinson’s. The poem that I found the most interesting of Whitman’s was “The Sleepers,” because it seems creepy in a sense and I like creepy stories or poems…

Transcendentalism means “an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism”. To Walt Whitman and the other Transcendentalist artists that followed along side with him all believed that being connected to nature was a must. It can also be seen as connecting the human soul to nature. Walt Whitman was…

they weren’t afraid to be different. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, and Walt Whitman were all icons of historic American Literature. Their views and actions were shunned as crazy, but that didn’t stop them from being themselves. All of them were similar, yet branched out into their own particular views. Emerson was the original transcendentalist, Thoreau took after him and created his own views, and Walt Whitman probably the most different of them all, having his own unique writing style…

“Nothing endures but personal qualities,” (Whitman, 2008, p. 115) conveys the core of a nursing leader. There are many qualities and characteristics, which determine the effectiveness of a nurse leader. In 1863, Walt Whitman’s experience and artistry of the written word uncovered the horrors of war. While attempting to find his war-injured soldier brother, he travelled to many military hospitals and convalescent homes. “The absence of any treatment for the heart and the soul [of the sick,…

appreciation for the natural world, and individualism. Elements of Romanticism have been recognized in works from a multitude of different cultures. Significantly, William Wordsworth is widely known as one of the great English Romantic poets. In addition, Walt Whitman, an American poet, has also been acknowledged for the Romantic elements in his works. Although both poets are from two different cultures, their works share ideals present in Romanticism. Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles…

Walt Whitman, the “‘bard’ of American democracy” (Reynolds, Walt Whitman: Lives and Legacies ix) was born on May 31, 1819 in the Long Island village of West Hills, some fifty miles east of Manhattan. The poet’s mother was Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and his father, Walter Whitman. Walt’s ancestors were two branches of early American settlers, English on his father’s side and Dutch on his mother’s (1). The poet’s father was a “taciturn man with a knack for ill success and possibly a drinking…

Walt Whitman/Emily Dickinson Clash Essay Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were both highly influential poetic writers in the twentieth century. Whitman portrayed the major characteristics of a transcendentalist while Dickinson demonstrated the core ideas of a realist. Whitman grew up in New York City and became a teacher at the age of seventeen. He despised the profession and quit because he believed that it was absurd to force students to conform to society’s standards. Whitman’s life is…

States,” (pg. 1598). • He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for “his Pisan Cantos (1948), written while he was in prison in Italy, and he later received the American Poets Award,” (pg. 1599). Connections • He was connected to Whitman because in his essay, “What I Feel about Walt Whitman,” he said “The vital part of my message, taken from the sap and fibre of America, is the same as his,” (pg. 1600). This means that while he disliked Whitman’s writing style, or “what he viewed as the artistic…

Critical Analysis Leah Zimmerman Walt Whitman and Robert frost both use symbolism and analogies to bear a personal and detailed style of writing. Both poets refer to passionate moments without actually saying what is really happening. This makes the reader stop and think, and relate to their own experiences in life while reading. Both poems are passionate and well driven. Robert Frost poem is about making life choices. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.”…