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Whitman and Dickinson

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1
Walt Whitman depicted
the problems caused by war
scenes of American rural life and common men
spooky and Gothic situations
the struggles Americans had to endure because of the UK
2
Emily Dickinson
was friends with the Transcendentalists
published many poems in life
worked as a journalist
lived in isolation for a long time
3
In Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Dickinson explores
a plant plague she had to get rid of
a fly landing on a corpse
women's role in society and the fact that people tend to hide themselves
the difference between butterflies and spiders
4
In Beat! Beat! Drums!, there is a call to
enjoy nature
the war
play in an orchestra
value poetry
5
In Song of Myself, Whitman explores
his homosexuality
a botanical approach to grass
the cyclical aspect of life and death
revenge
6
In Song of Myself, possible meanings of the grass are
balance, the sublime, perseverance
war, struggle, death
life, equality, justice
love, the unkown, unconscious
7
Dickinson wrote
mostly fiction and short stories
traditional poems following versification rules
poems about the Civil War
shorter poems, with unconventional use of punctuation
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Walt Whitman writes Beat! Beat! Drums using
trochaic tetrameter
dactylic hexameter
ABAB rhyme scheme
free verse