Walt Whitman
Essays

There have been numerous historical works on the Great Explorers, Columbus, DeSoto, Cortes, Pizzaro, etc. But one thing that emerges from their accounts of the New World was that North America was populated sparsely and…

¶ … Emily and Dickinson and Walt Whitman are diverse poets and their work can be seen as offering equal contributions to the Romantic era because they exemplify the ideas the Romantics were reaching toward.

Whitman's Drum-taps: Poignantly Realistic, Verifiably Patriotic

American Literature: From Colonialism to Realism

What elements of free verse do you find in Aboard at a Ship's Helm? Identify three elements of free verse used by Whitman. Give an example of each from the poem.

¶ … Civil War as Depicted in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

What characteristics of Transcendental thought can be seen in Walt Whitman's poetry?

This paper offers a summary of biographical information about the American Romantic author Edgar Allan Poe, a general overview of Poe's writing style, and concludes with a close analysis of "The Tell Tale Heart." The paper argues that Poe liberated 19th century American fiction from the responsibility of having to tell a moral and that Poe focused on style over 'message.'

Walt Whitman was born to a working class family in New York in 1819. Known as one of America's greatest and most innovative poets, Whitman was also among the first generation to grow up in a completely independent…

This document contains an examination of and reflection on the understanding of death and dying and of the human body during the Civil War in the United States, which was complicated by the general prudery of the Victorian Era. Several primary documents from the Civil War period are examined and addressed as evidence of how attitudes shifted.