Essays on Walt Whitman

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior – (Walt Whitman). The United States of America is considered the world’s first democracy that evolved to having a dynamic nature that allowed every segment of society to express its problems and demand the solution. Civil Liberty is the jewel in the crown of American democracy. Walt...

Poets are extremely good at conveying an emotion through words and evoking the emotion of a reader. Two poets that were skilfully able to do this were Walt Whitman and W.H Auden. Both poets were able to explore the theme of death and loss through the use of text structures, literary and visual devices and...

Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes we’re both American poets. Even though they were working around different times, they still wrote and talked about the same issues and problems, like slavery. Both poets used imagery, diction, point of view, and tone in their own crazy and creative way. Even though they have their similarities they also...

Both “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman and “I taste a liquor never brewed” by Emily Dickinson impress the readers of all time by their imaginative poetical forces, although each is unique in its own way which reflects individual literary patterns of the authors. While Whitman’s verses run smooth and cheerful, almost hippie-like, Dickinson uses...

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s (1841) “Self-reliance” and Walt Whitman’s (1892) “Song of Myself” express similar ideas about self-reliance. Emerson’s text is entirely about the topic of self-reliance, but Whitman’s (1892) poetic form conveys very similar arguments even if they are in the form of poetry rather than prose. Both authors are critical of society and the...

What are the limits for the self? Where does the self-finish and the other or the community begins? One of the concepts that say the most about our way of thinking is the idea of the self. Whether language reveals or delimits how thought works, the truth is that the self is such an elementary...

The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Poetry is often closely related to musical traditions, and the earliest poetry exists in the form of hymns, and other types of song such as chants. Poems can help you say, help you show how you’re...