Whitman

Walt Whitman was thinking of me. He was dreaming of all of us; the people he would never meet, the people who may never know his name, the people of the past, present, and future. Few evidence can be found that Whitman had any clairvoyant powers, yet he seemed to know what to look for, when thinking, dreaming, and wishing for the future generations. He could not possibly know where we would be, how the city would change, or when we would be crossing Brooklyn ferry, yet somehow, someway Whitman…

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…

and importance of nature. Many pieces of literature contain some or all of these tenets, the ones i’m going to discuss and analyze today are Still I Rise by Maya Angelou that focuses on self-reliance and stanza 1 and 52 from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman which focuses on all tenants of transcendentalism (and that you will be discussing about the one that's most important 2 you). The poem Still I Rise written by Maya Angelou has a main focus of self-reliance, but can expresses all tenets of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Through the extensive storytelling form embedded in Song of Myself by Walt Whitman and How it feels to be colored me by Zora Neale Hurston, the common both works encompass a stylistic writing that draws imagery to circumstance. With comparable insight from a host of scholars, both of these short stories reveal a theme that examines the essence of human circumstance vs. the realities of Nature. While Walt Whitman directly exhibits the theme of man vs. nature through the story. He explicates…