Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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An extensive comparison of the symbols in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, with an emphasis on their lives and lifestyles.

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"However, where Whitman characteristically moved to specify Identity in Variety, Dickinson characteristically found variety in her uniqueness. As a result, despite the fact that Whitman boasted with good cause that he had put a person down on paper, the sum total of Dickinson's poems comprises, in many respects, a more complete and immediate expression of an individual consciousness than Whitman ever achieved or, in a sense, wanted to achieve."

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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Comparison-Essay-Walt-Whitman-and-Emily-Dickinson/1463

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