Whitman

Gulliver’s Travels are both contemporary works of literature that each have their own ideas of the self. Whitman loves every aspect of the self as well as the nature and world surrounding it because he finds it just as valuable. Swift, however, displays his contempt for the self numerous times throughout his satire. Both of these authors share their opinions of the self in contrasting ways. When Whitman discusses the self, he is celebrating himself, the reader and the universe in a manner that…

Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson use different structures and figurative language, they convey a similar attitude about education and religion, which are common institutions. In “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman and “324” by Emily Dickinson both poets use personification to describe their tone in order to explain the view of their groups. Although, they use different poem structures and figurative language. Whitman and Dickinson have a similar attitude, in the poem…

of Christianity. Missionaries initially welcomed the desperate natives who were willing to study whichever religion in exchange for medical aid. In Oregon, the Whitman massacre is one example of the failure of European medicine and the desperate response of the Cayuses. “As both a physician and missionary, the Cayuses held Marcus Whitman accountable for the deaths of his patients, especially since they suspected him of spiritual Malpractice.”…

fifth response on song of myself by Walt Whitman jacklyn signorile I believe in you my soul the other I must not a bath itself to you and you must not be a best to the other this is the phrases that Walt Whitman has chosen to begin his fist poem in his trilogy entitled song of myself. Loaf with me on the grass Whitman requests implying lay with me in the grass lose the stuff from your throat it seems as if Whitman is giving vocal coaching he moves on to say not words not music or rhyme I want…

instead of experiencing. Whitman uses many textual clues to point out the contrast in how the narrator feels about the lecture and the outdoors. For example, in Line 7 of the poem, the narrator describes the air outside was “mystical moist,” which seems to be contrasting the dull lecture he was just in. Also, the way the narrator reacts to the mathematical figures presented to him during the lecture shows how much he does not care to learn in this way. If this had been Whitman himself in…

Walt Whitman, through his works, appears to display a view of equality and tolerance as a part of his mission to create great American poetry. However, despite his seemingly harmless portrayals of certain minority groups in America, mainly African-Americans and Native Americans, Whitman often reinforces the dominant views expressed by those in his own time. Moreover, he subconsciously celebrates colonialism by his praises and encouragements of westward expansion. While Whitman does sometimes…

historically America has had difficulty balancing these ideals. One of Walt Whitman poems preaches the possibility that these concepts can work together. “Song of Myself” is Whitman’s paean to his ideal of American democracy, an idea which balances, or attempts to balance, freedom with equality, individualism with community, a relentlessly inclusive, or as Whitman puts it, “absorptive”…

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…

magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman attempts to fulfill the duties of the American Bard and tell the story of the American people. The American Bard is, according to Whitman, “the equalizer of his age and land” (1012), who speaks for all without bias or exclusions. In the preface to Leaves of Grass, he says, “The American bards… shall be kosmos… hungry for equals night and day” (1016). The Bard will not express bias towards a certain class, topic, or region. Whitman declares, “What I tell…

“I Hear America Singing,” by Walt Whitman is mainly about American people working away at their jobs in a joyful manner. I will be paraphrasing this poem, stating the theme, and giving my personal reaction to it. To summarize Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing,” people work joyfully and sing the songs of their jobs throughout the day. The speaker of the poem announces that he hears "America singing," and then describes that each worker sings, "what belongs to him or her,” such as the…