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Comparing Emily Dickinson And Walt Whitman's Poetry

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Through the centuries writers have contributed to the local and global community written works that capture the reader’s inner most thoughts, ambitious, desires and perspective of reality. Poetry is a unique form of writing that has the ability to influence generation past, present and future. Through the a few selected authors; Shakespeare, Blake, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost and Rich the average reader can find from each author’s unique style and perspective their culture and issues or philosophical idea of their era. William Shakespeare an ancient writer of the 16th century composed his famous sonnets, a 14 line pattern that depicts a philosophical thought of that time period. Shakespeare portrait his view on life, love, and death using …show more content…

Using the perspective of the innocent child whom is unware of the abuse that is occurring in the child’s life. Blake captures the hope that the abused cling too. His cryptic method of his poems hinted and quietly revealed the harsh reality of that adult’s altering motive to gain an advantage over others. Walt Whitman the poet of the 18th century a head of his time saw America through the lens of democracy. This freestyle author of poetry bravely depicted the average American lifestyle through his words. This unorthodox writer didn’t follow the typical pattern of poetry of rhyme or rhythm. But he rather chose to focus on the context of his poems to give a voice to the voiceless. Utilizing a list type format to give the reader a better understanding of the subject, in which Whitman confidently wrote about everyone; man, woman, poor, black, indian, or …show more content…

Although he considered himself none regional poet, his work is highly considered to be the voice of New England. His crisp clear and continually concise words of experience of his individual experience reflect the egocentric of the American culture. Adrienne Rich a brilliant writer of the 19th century wrote the raw view of how harsh the current world is from the political perspective of woman that sees the unfair treatment of minorities and the unmoral acts of war. Rich’s brass and ruthless assault against the oppressed and abused is seen throughout her poetry as she is unafraid to address issue of today’s society, such as rape, war and the abuse of power of those in

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