Walt Whitman
Essays

Following the American Civil War, the poetry of the United States showed signs of becoming much more distinctly American, in style, theme, and content, as the new nation slowly found its own identity, confidence, and…

Comparison: "Who Am I?" And "Gender Gap in Cyberspace"

Spider's Objective In Whitman And Dickinson

¶ … Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." To summarize the poem very briefly: the poet comes across a fork in the road. He is not sure which road to take. He tries to gauge how each road was traveled though there seemed…

Ralph Waldo Emerson's idealized and mesmerizing description of the role and life of the poet describes not only the particular calling and obligation of those who choose to follow the poetic muses but also -- because of…

Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are both iconic, legendary American authors with great reputations and writing portfolios, but their works are vastly different in tone, style, theme and characterization.

This paper analyzes the meaning of the phrase "grapes of wrath" used by Steinbeck as the title of his novel. The phrase and the images it evokes are connected to Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as well as to John's Book of the Apocalypse from Scripture in which deliverance is prophesied through the combination of love and wrath.

Poetry is one of the most ancient of all the literary genres known to humanity, yet contemporary poems can still speak to occasions which grip the human consciousness in the here and now.

It can be argued that all literature is a product of the culture within which it develops. This pattern can be seen in early American literature. The prehistory of early European-American writers were profoundly…

Puritan and Romantic literary consciousness: A comparison to a recent "Dead Poets Society" in modern film