Today’s society is very critical of anything and everything we do. In recent years, studies on bullying-related suicides have been conducted in the U.S and around the globe and, because of a judgmental and critical society, suicide from bullying is the third leading cause of death among adolescents. Resulting in approximately 4,400 deaths every year in the United States alone. Everyone can agree that, at one point in their lives, they have been bullied because of the popular opinion of society. These events correlate with the themes discussed in Dickinson’s “I’m nobody! Who are you?” and Whitman’s “Song of Myself” An analysis on I am Different. I am unique by Adam Crum, as well as both Dickinson and Whitman’s biographies emphasize the essentialness of …show more content…
In his youth, Dickinson was not in class at one of the Brooklyn public schools, he loved riding the ferry, walking the streets, and checking out the museums, constantly taking note of life happening around him. When he was eleven years old, Whitman had to drop out of school and work to support his family. In his earlier years, Whitman enjoyed travel to see the different cultures of the world. This may have been a large influencer in his poetry. In his poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman shows that he is really into himself. This celebration of himself reflects the Romantics ' obsession with individualism. These writers really believed that each and every one of us was different and special. And yet, on another level, these lines from the poem also show how we 're all connected. As the poet states, "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." So we 're individual, and we are all different, but we should also never lose sight of how we are connected to others, just as the speaker in the lines above is conscious of how he is connected to his parents, and his parents ' parents before that (“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form 'd from this soil, this