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This paper examines how Ralph Waldo Emerson's association with the transcendental movement can be linked to the ideas he expressed in his essay, "Nature," where he emphasizes being true to oneself, individuality, and nonconformity. Emerson also explains his ideas regarding the soul and its connection with nature and God. It looks at how two poets whose work reflects this type of thinking are Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and how these writers discover a path to self, soul, and identity through their experiences, ideas that can be traced to Emerson's writings.

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"In his essay, "Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson urges man to think independently. He opens his essay with by advancing the idea that that we consider for ourselves a "philosophy of insight and not of tradition" (Emerson 994). With this idea, he builds upon the theory that much of life is still left to be discovered, we must only be open to it and connect with it. The wide universe, according to Emerson, is composed of "nature and the soul" (994). Emerson held a profound respect for nature and its beauty. He states that when he is in the presence of nature, he "become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God" (996). Here we see how Emerson attempts to focus on nature as it manifests itself through his senses."

Tags:nature, self, identity

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The writer compares the work of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to draw similarities as well as differences in the styles, the tones and the themes of the poems. The paper shows how the poems have similarities in rhythm, pattern and theme, and yet they differ in delivery and context. Each is about pain and loneliness while they diverge in whether that loneliness causes anger or sadness for the narrator.

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"Walt Whitman was known for his ability to put prose into action and make the reader feel that they too share the narrator's body, mind and soul. His words whisper across a page and enter the depth of the reader's heart before the brain even realizes what the words have actually said. One of his most well loved works was Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in which the reader is given a peek into the soul and depth of pain that Whitman suffered through while he reflected and analyzed his own life. It was well known that many of his works were autobiographical in nature and this poem was another example of the things he lived and felt as he graced the world with his talent. Emily Dickinson was also known for her ability to spell out pain and emotion in the form of a poem. Her loneliness and depression are commonly accepted facts at this point in history but the way she displayed them gave the world classic words of pride to enjoy for all time. Her work often reflected the same type of deep and inner longing for connections to the world that Whitman wrote in his works."

Tags:poetry, loneliness, styles, similarities, emotion

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This paper discusses how both Dickinson and Whitman provide a strong autobiographical lyrical and poetic tendency to bring forth the private, spiritual self that must be enforced if one is to truly understand the external world they must live within. In contrast to one another, the paper shows how Whitman takes a far stronger sense of social responsibility in his poems, as Dickinson tended to not like partaking in Amherst society outside of the security of her own home.

Tags:whitman, dickinson, literature

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The following paper shows how the works of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson all have an unreal quality about them as they are removed from real life and are emotional rather than intellectual.

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"The subjects of Walt Whitman are wider ranging than Poe and Dickinson. They are also often on less emotional and more concrete subjects. Some of these subjects include the futility of war, love and separation, first love as well as more spiritual topics. What Whitman shares with Poe and Dickinson is the emotion levels of his work. In form, Whitman's poems are long. They are also more structured than Poe's, whose sentences tend to be short and stanzas tend to be irregular. Rhyme is used by Whitman though rhyme is sometimes unstructured and chaotic".

Tags:rhyme, themes

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This paper compares the works of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman in terms of their relative importance, and sense of self-importance, within the literary world of their time. Selected works of each author are discussed and compared for imagery and scale.

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This paper examines how nineteenth century American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson project individual identities that achieve their power from within, thus placing a premium on the individual self. The paper shows how both poets also challenged the cultural assumptions on gender in the late nineteenth century. The paper analyzes and compares several works by both poets.

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"Like Whitman, the individual identity projected in this poem of Dickinson's achieves its power from within, from the solitary life, not from society. In many of Dickinson poem's she puts a premium on the individual self as something that is above being touched, it is, as she says in poem# 1351, "that indestructible estate"(584). In many of her poems the individual identity of the speaker achieves its power from within. For example, poem #540, "I took my power in my Hand and went against the World"(263-264). The significance of this similarity between Whitman and Dickinson is that it demonstrates how their poetry is very much in dialogue with the culture they wrote in, more specifically the intellectual milieu of late 19th Century New England. The fact that they share similar ideas about the individual self and project in their poetry an identity defined in opposition to society, is surely no coincidence."

Tags:Song, of, Myself, individualism, masculine

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This paper compares and contrast the form and content of American writers Emily Dickinson and Walt Witman. In an analysis of their poetry it is noted that both poets are concerned with the concepts of death and spirituality in their poetry, however both approach their subjects from a different perspective. Dickinson used traditional forms, strict meter and rhyming schemes in her four stanza poetry whereas Whitman writes in free verse.

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"Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson both use different forms and structure in their poetry to convey the meaning, symbolism and emotion in their work. This paper will compare and contrast how each of the two authors approaches their own concerns by the way they discuss their subject matter in their poetry and will discuss the different forms and structure that each of them uses to convey meaning in their work. Both Whitman and Dickinson are concerned with the concept of death in their work. In "I heard a fly Buzz when I died" Dickinson is concerned with the process of death. She uses the fly as an ongoing metaphor to..."

Tags:poetry, form, content

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This paper presents a biographical synopsis of the poetess, Emily Dickinson. Her upbringing and education are mentioned, as are the significant relationships she had in her life. Several of her literary works are described, illustrating her poetic style. The paper provides a brief comparison of Dickinson's poetry to that of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe.

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"Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but returned home after one year. She continued to live in her family home with her younger sister, mother and father. Her brother and his wife lived next door. Dickinson rarely left her house or received visitors. Those whom she did associate with, however, had a powerful affect on her poetry.
It is speculated that the two most influential people in her life were Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a trip to Philadelphia, and her sister-in-law, Susan. In 1860, Wadsworth left for the West Coast, causing Dickinson terrible grief. Afterward, she lived in isolation from the rest of the world. Despite this, she enthusiastically continued correspondences and avidly remained au currant with popular published works."

Tags:susan, charles, wadsworth, mount, holyoke, biography

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This paper considers the poetry of Emily Dickinson in terms of her life and interests. The author compares her poetry to that of Walt Whitman. The paper examines her relationship to and influence on poetry of the Twentieth Century.

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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."

Tags:dickinson, emily, walt, whitman